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Its a pretty good parallel. There's been a ton of discussion about it before. Technically, its possible. Is it the right answer? Probably not. J. When I grow up, I wanna be more like me. I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an attitude. On 1999年8月10日, John Nolan wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug