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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? 
In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> 
   of "Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:13:37 PDT." <200004292013.NAA01003@mass.cdrom.com> 
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:13:37 PDT, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>You leave out "how well you want it to perform" as well.  All other 
>things being equal, the PCI:SCSI adapters will give you better bang for 
>your buck.

Out of curiosity, how would a PCI-RAID (SCSI) adapter compare with
vanilla PCI-SCSI cards and vinum?  It seems to me that the host CPU(s)
are much faster than the processors on the PCI-SCSI adapters.  Or are
both of these "fast-enough" and thus performance differences are largely
an irrelevent consideration?  (They both have similar software issues
but I suspect vinum is easier to debug. :)


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