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

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Wed 07 May 2008 at 11:41:55 AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>       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.

this sounds rather contrary to what I'm familiar with... especially
since this is a high end raid card. can you provide any references?
a google does not confirm your assertion.

// George


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