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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?
> Have either of you read the Raid HOWTO? I glanced over it, and software
> Raid 5 does indeed seem possible. As for specific examples as to when
> software raid is more attractive than hardware raid.... the cost of
> hardware raid (at least on sun systems) is rather large. I've been
> in the situation where it was beter to take the performace hit and
> have the fault tollerance than not. Price simply made hardware raid
> a non issue.
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
>
> > Nick R writes:
> > > I should've been more specific. RAID 5.
> >
> > Because anybody who would benefit from RAID 5 can afford the
> > hardware, and a software solution is necessarily much slower. I
> > welcome counterexamples, but please not hypothetical ones.
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