Hosting again

[Lyle - CosmicPerl.com]

Simon Elliott wrote:
> The last time I did some serious benchmarking (3 or 4 years ago now) 
> software raid beat so called "enterprise" raid hardware - in speed - 
> (both read and write) by a factor of between 4 and 5 (depending on raid 
> card manufacturer). IIRC I tested again high end Adaptec and Compaq raid 
> cards as installed in Dell and Compaq servers respectively. Ironically 
> this benchmarking was done using the same card either as a raid 
> controller or just plain scsi. Software raid was always much faster.
>
> Sadly though, software raid was harder to setup, to maintain and to 
>   
I've been told that with software raid I'd have greater control and be 
able to better monitor what's going on with the RAID and what disks are 
causing problems. I didn't realize that software RAID was so much faster 
as well. Although I suspect that this can depend on Load as well at it's 
using CPU??

Would you suggest that I use software RAID instead of hardware for my 
next server(s)?


Lyle