> *NEVER* use software RAID if you can avoid it. Software RAID puts a > pretty good hit right on your CPU. > In linux, I find this to be completely wrong. I have 15TB of software raid 6 and the most load that it puts on the cpu is around 7% and these are raid arrays that net over 200MB/s writes on single core systems that are 3 or so years old.
In windows software raid performance sucks so you need a hardware card there. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users