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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>
Subject: Re: Question regarding SAS controllers.
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:29:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081123002943.GB12360@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811221741500.14817@p34.internal.lan>

* Justin Piszcz (jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com) wrote:

<snip>

> How come the reviews are so bad for these cards?  (They mostly used the HW 
> raid function, which I am not interested in).

My experience generally is they are very stable but just not very
fast with the hardware RAID (actually I can't think of
any of the hardware raid cards that are that fast - especially for
write).

Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-23  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-22 21:46 Question regarding SAS controllers Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 21:51 ` Moore, Eric
2008-11-22 21:59   ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:21     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-11-22 22:28       ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:33         ` Moore, Eric
2008-11-22 22:38           ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:43             ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-23  0:29               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2008-11-24 16:11 ` Grant Grundler
2008-11-24 20:52 ` Wes Felter

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