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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 1999年8月10日, 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. -- ##-------------------------------- ## John Nolan ## jpnolan op net ##-------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug