[ale] ATL Colocation and file server suggestions

[Ken Ratliff]

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On Jan 20, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:

> Some cards make the host CPU do the work.  Unfortunately
> the term "hardware RAID" has been abused.  The important
> question is whether the CPU of the machine using the RAID
> has to do the math or not.

Oh god, don't remind me. I have had some nightmares with fakeraid's.  
Especially some of the crap that IBM and HP put out, finding windows  
compatible drives.... /shiver. I'm pretty much a lifelong customer of  
3ware when it comes to raid cards, though I find myself having to deal  
with LSI cards at work quite a bit.


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