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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. How did they work under? by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Linux, BSD, or Solaris?
    How about calling it the Windows RAID controller shoot out?
    ExtremeTech should just change it's name to Mainstream tech and get it over with.

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