>> You will have to prove that. I have previously posted posts with links >> to benchmarks that show that hardware raid with sufficient processing >> power beat the pants of software raid when it comes to raid5/6 >> implementations. Hardware raid cards no longer come with crappy i960 cpus. >> > > Just by doing some quick googling, I came across: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=126 > http://storagemojo.com/2007/04/24/mo-better-zfs-performance-stats/ > http://milek.blogspot.com/2007/04/hw-raid-vs-zfs-software-raid-part-iii.html > I have an issue with that benchmark. I don't know what that EMC is made of nevermind the fancy FC. Regarding my posts...they were on the ubuntu-user list...not here...so...here are the links: Thread post: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2008-December/004887.html Don't use underpowered hardward raid boards for raid5/6 http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~gelb/castle_raid.html Use hardware raid boards with enough cpu/cache for raid5/6 http://www.linux.com/feature/140734