Re: Which SATA RAID controller?

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:38:11PM +0100, Andreas John wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I would recommend to take both and tell us about your experience ;-)
> 
> IMHO:
> 3ware is _hardware_ raid
> Promise is pseudo-hardware (i.e. parity calc is done in the pc cpu)

> >On Di, Mär 23, 2004 at 06:10:23 +0100, Marcin Owsiany 
> ><porridge@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I need to choose between:
> >>- 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP
> >>- Promise Fast Track S150 TX4

Please note that 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP only does RAID levels 0 and 1,
in which there is no need for checksum calculations AFAIK. What
advantage does 3ware have then?

Marcin
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