Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:41:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: john_wilson100@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum? Message-ID: <200109110541.f8B5fAC10992@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010911090518.G733@canberra.worldwide.lemis.com> "from Greg Lehey at Sep 11, 2001 09:05:18 am"
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It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > > I reckon if the RAID functions are implemented in HPT BIOS (in software), > > I'll be better off with Vinum. > > Ultimately, all RAID is software RAID. The issue is just how it's > implemented. Exactly. > I'd guess that the HPT will give you far worse performance than Vinum, > though I'd be very interested to see confirmation or denial of this > guess. If you feel like benchmarking, contact me first. And why is that ? for RAID's with the same parameters, I'd expect them to perform equal, maybe with a sligtht advantage to the ATA driver since it saves a few cycles by being tighter integrated. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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