From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: new raid system for home use
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:12:18 -0400
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KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> * Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca) [20040420 07:46]:
> 
> 
>>[...] sw raid is faster, cheaper and not dependent on obscure
>>hardware. [...]
> 
> 
> For me, random reads are 10-15% better on 3ware 7506 HW-RAID5 than
> on SW-RAID5.

That's highly dependent on the hardware used for software RAID5.

	Jeff