[ale] Hot Point RAID and Linux

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Mike Panetta [mailto:ahuitzot at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:23 AM
>
> In my experience Linux software raid is faster then the
> hardware controller cards.  Its not necessarily as robust
> though.  The company I used to work for benchmarked several
> different hardware cards (the 3ware escalade with 7200RPM
> ata 100 drives on it, a mylex dac1100, and a couple of AMI
> Megaraid cards) none of them could outperform the Linux
> software raid solution.

Surprising.  How lomg ago was this?  Do you by any chance remember the model
of the Escalade?  Or whether or not the Escalade was any faster than the
other cards?

I have heard nothing but good things about the Escalades, but my
understanding is they introduced some new technology a year or two ago whcih
greatly increased their performance and reliability - know anything about
that?

Charles


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