Hosting again

[Dirk Koopman]

David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:32:05PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
>> Depends what you want. Unless the processors in RAID cards have been 
>> significantly beefed up in recent hardware - if it is speed you want - 
>> then software raid wins hands down all the time.
> 
> Until you remember that software RAID is usually combined with IDE, and
> therefore runs like a stunned slug.
> 

Actually no. We did a comparison with three discs on a (adaptec) SCSI 
160 in raid 0, software raid 0 on the same controller (same discs) but 
just in plain SCSI and, for a bit of fun, raid 0 on three random (but 
reasonably quick) IDE drives connected to the two IDE ports of the same 
Dell server.

IIRC the results were:  software raid in SCSI nearly 5 times as fast, 
ditto IDE 2.5 times as fast as the adaptec doing its hardware raid 0.

Dirk