Keep in mind that unless you want to boot or use a RAID 5, or want to share your RAID volumes between different operating systems, there is little reason to purchase a hardware RAID card. Software RAID is quite sufficient for most needs and the host processor running at 2+ ghz is much better at RAID then a 60 mhz i960 IOP. Keep in mind, though, that hardware RAID adaptors have built in xor accelerators which can do multiple xors in one instruction in hardware, allowing for much better xor performance then the intel or ppc processor can do.
Thanks
-steve
tk Voice wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
I thought that $19 delivered was too good to be true!!!
Are HP and Promise cards ture "HARDWARE" cards with there own I/O processor?
Peter
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