[XCSSA] NAS the VIA EPIA way

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 05:10:17 pm X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
[...]
> Another plus here for a true
> hardware RAID card is having something else compute those XORs for you
> when using a RAID5. 

You mean a dedicated RAID proc.. yeah.. Even moreso when you're in degraded 
mode.

> I'm not a fan of RAID5 in general, but it has its 
> uses.

That's why I was asking about the battery and cache.. RAID-5 CAN be as fast as 
RAID-0 on a nice high end card.. because you're not writing to disk.. you're 
writing to NV RAM.. as fast as the bus can take input from the CPU.


> For my application, though, I've been very happy with software RAID.
> It's not a Porsche and, in fact I paid a premium to get a motherboard
> which was intentionally slow :) It's more like a Ford Focus Hybrid.
> There's nothing wrong with a Focus, but a Prosche is definitely going
> to kick it's ass on a race track (straight or curvy). 

Looking forward to seeing it. :)


> > Does that card you're selling have a BBCache?

What's the make/model again?


Tweeks