Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 4, Issue 7
From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 06/18/03
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:48:00 -0400 To: agent dero <dero@bluhayz.org>
agent dero wrote:
> I have been researching RAID and Software RAID online using FreeBSD's
> availible documents, and I am wondering what the performance of using a
> simple RAID 1 capable card over a software RAID 1 configuration? Will the
> software RAID perform well enough that I could just cut costs of a RAID card?
Hardware RAID support can be critical to RAID-5 performance; for RAID-1, the
difference between software and hardware probably won't be noticable.
[ Yes, this is a generalization that will be false in some circumstances. ]
-Chuck
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