On 19/07/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote: > Oh, if you want to try the hardware raid is faster than software raid > line, then I have got news for you. Some time back, there was this i960 > chip from Intel that was very popular on hardware raid solutions. It > sucked. It sucked big time. Yes, it did offload a fair bit of cpu > processing from the AMD/Intel cpus then but the i960 was so slow, using > software raid was just a no brainer since you get twice the speed for a > 10% cpu load. I had that card... LOL! Thanks for the correction. I start wondering how on earth Intel put those chips on... -- Alvin Chang Yu-Ming