> From: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>

> I'd recommend an external RAID controller.  It's a device with at
> least two SCSI buses, typically.  It makes a bunch of hard drives on
> one side of it look like one big hard drive on the other side.  The
> good ones have battery-backed cache memory, which can do some
> wonderful things for performance, especially with NFS.

Is such an device really faster than a Raidframe disk array with the same  
disks on some Adaptecs?

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