SATA problem

[William Muriithi]

On 22 March 2011 13:32, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:21:41PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
>> 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
>
> Who mentioned RAID?
>
Pardon me on this.  I misread the email.  May be I am still half
asleep an need more coffee

William
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