Re: [Plug] soft RAID

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Yes, but there's a difference here. Hardware RAID is Very expensive. If you 
can save yourself $1500-$3000 a box, then I'd think you'd more than make up 
for the loss to the CPU(s). And if you're doing something such as serving 
out static web pages and the like then you don't need a whole lot of 
processing power anyway.

Disclaimer: The preceeding statements are based in no part in actual 
experience as I'm a poor HS student sans sweet sweet servers or a job 
involving said servers, but rather based in what I've read, heard from other 
people, and some (il)logical conclusions I've made based on the 
aforementioned information.


> From: John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: Re: [Plug] soft RAID
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> Isn't this analogous to the whole Winmodem question?
> It's possible to move the processing from the controller
> board to the main CPU, but this is generally a bad idea because
> it takes up CPU time and defeats device abstraction.
>
> Isn't there some line of Sun RAID products which uses
> software RAID 5 ?  I think I remember some users complaining
> about it, but I've forgotton which product it is.
> It's not the A5000's, is it?


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