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RAID Controller Shoot-Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the millions-of-bugs-scream-at-once dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a comparison with benchmarks of three RAID controllers from Adaptec, LSI Logic, and Promise, and along the way gives you a little refresher course on RAID in general and why you want to use it: faster throughput, longer uptime, and improved data security. Motherboard RAID controllers do well when there's 'very little or no load on the CPU, I/O bus, and memory bandwidth. But with heavy traffic and processor loads, the limitations of the shared bus and the benefits of intelligent RAID's integrated IOP and memory cache have a more significant impact.'"

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  1. Re:RAID0 is evil and must die. by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey, let's double our chances of data loss by distributing data over TWO drives instead of one.

    Dumbass."

    Thank you for your comment, Dumbass, but around here you don't need to sign your name to each comment. The system does that for you automatically.