On 2004-02-17T08:37:05,
Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@modestolan.com> said:
> A Hardware raid controller is always an add-on card, it never comes
> distributed on a motherboard. It has a bios which you can enter before
> booting into any OS and usually supports 0,1,1+0,and 5 at a minimum. It
> has a full CPU onboard that does all raid calculations and I/O, and
> displays itself to the OS as configured by the raid controller (i.e. if
> you configure a single raid 5, from 3 drives, it will show up by the OS
> as one big drive). A Hardware RAID will always be faster than a software
> raid, and consumes MUCH less CPU time.
The first part of the last sentence is wrong.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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