HTPC hardware
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Nov 25 22:37:52 CST 2003
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 02:49 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> hadn't read that HW RAID was any better than SW RAID.
> I have seen the argument, but never any proof.
I can't really offer proof, but hardware RAID cards have processors on them
(and usually cache RAM). They do offload the processing, and there is a
performance difference. You also can't boot to a software RAID, because
software to recognize it is within the OS. With a hardware RAID, the
controller emulates a single, bootable drive.
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