Re: SATA II and PCI-X vs PCI for Areca ARC-1110 RAID Adapter

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello.  My suggestion is to check the performance, if possible, of a
hardware raid card versus raidframe in a given eenvironment.  The reason is
that I've run into a number of situations where raidframe out performs
hardware raid cards by a good margin, and this was somewhat of a surprise
until I started asking around, and found that, in fact, my experience
wasn't that unique.  In fact, I think if you google around for hardware
raid versus software raid, you'll find quite a few people hav had the
experience that I have.
-Brian

On May 7,  2:15pm, George Georgalis wrote:
} Subject: Re: SATA II and PCI-X vs PCI for Areca ARC-1110 RAID Adapter
} On Wed 07 May 2008 at 06:40:56 PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
} >On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:38:33PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
} >> Well that's an important extra bit of info... no need to buy the card
} >> if the only reason was to get faster IO from my SATA II disks!
} >> (since I don't have a PCI-x slot available for it)
} >
} >Well, it depends. If you use RAID 5 I would expect better performance
} >from a RAID controller compared to a software implementation even
} >if you only use 32Bit 33MHz PCI.
} 
} Yep, duly noted. infact the on-controller RAID vs RAIDframe
} performance was what originally led me to this card; the hot swap
} support is a nice feature too.
} 
} // George
} 
} 
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} George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><
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