Re: Hardware vs. Software Raid Speed

Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-08-23T19:43:17Z

Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> And, yeah, they're all software RAID. Also, there isn't much to be
> gained from making RAID0/1 hardware. The software overhead isn't that

The CPU cycles in fact don't usually matter. The I/O overhead (on the
PCI bus) due to multiple transfers of the (more or less) same data is
typically more interesting.

regards
Mario
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