RE: performance limitations of linux raid

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

  Then you've never used a RAID card.  I've got a number of RAID
  cards here, 2 from compaq, 1 from DPT, and another from HP
  (really AMI), and all of them implement RAID functions like
  striping, double writes (mirroring), and parity calculations for
  RAID4/5 in firmware, using an onboard CPU.  All the controllers
  here are i960 based, but I've heard that the StrongARM procs are
  much faster at parity caclculations.

heard that too, the StrongARM based ones blow everything else away.
(heck www.empeg.com use SA-110's in an embedded linux car mp3 player,
and apparently it only takes 10->15% cpu for mp3 playback. powerful
cpu's).

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