That is the thing. Blanket statements like "hardware raid.. is much slower than software raid" need to be qualified.
EMC (the company which owns VMWare) makes these hardware RAID systems like the Symmetrix which can do mirroring across tens or hundreds of kilometers over a fiber link. And it's transparent to the software/OS. On 5/8/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..
> Tell that to people like EMC and Veritas. They seem to have built > entire business models around hardware RAID.. > i only have a onboard promise raid controller with a 33mhz processor. all i know about veritas is their software raid manager and i dont know anything about emc. well your instructions are clear enough. he can use either hardware or software raid.
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