SATA problem

[William Muriithi]

Christopher


On 22 March 2011 02:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | I was wanting to add a couple extra drives to one of my systems, and
> | apparently picked up the wrong sort of SATA controller.  Docs out on
> | the "interweb" are a bit less up to date than seems useful.
>
> What documentation did you use?
>
> I've heard, but I don't know from where, to avoid VIA.  Maybe Lennart.
> Maybe that was about firewire.
>

Please use software RAID, its far more reliable and is barely a load
to mordern CPU.  I have read that at most, it can barely use 2% of the
host CPU.  That and the high reliability mean you should not even
consider cheap RAID card as they will fail sooner than later as Hugh
just mentioned

William
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