[nycbug-talk] AMD Raid question. . .

[jeffrey.arnold]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, George R. wrote:

:: . . . aware of the grey area, but. . .
:: 
:: then how come i could do raid 1 or 10, or at least it tells me i can. . and
:: these are the boards and controllers that iron systems sells. . .
:: 

Most on-board controllers shy away from doing raid 5 as it's quite a bit 
more computationally intensive than the simple bit shuffling of raid 
1/10.

If you need a good ata/sata hardware raid controller, check out the 
3ware 9500 series or the latest Areca stuff (ARC-11XX).

Good luck,
-jba
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