On Tuesday, 11 September 2001 at 7:41:06 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >>> I reckon if the RAID functions are implemented in HPT BIOS (in software), >>> I'll be better off with Vinum. >> >> Ultimately, all RAID is software RAID. The issue is just how it's >> implemented. > > Exactly. > >> I'd guess that the HPT will give you far worse performance than Vinum, >> though I'd be very interested to see confirmation or denial of this >> guess. If you feel like benchmarking, contact me first. > > And why is that ? for RAID's with the same parameters, I'd expect them > to perform equal, maybe with a sligtht advantage to the ATA driver since it > saves a few cycles by being tighter integrated.
Agreed. I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters. Most of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms. Note that I said "guess", though. In my language, that means "don't know for sure". I'd really like to see some objective benchmarks. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
