Re: Promise SATA 150 TX2 plus

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
10 Jul 2003 01:20:05 +0100

On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 01:06, Milan Roubal wrote:
> Wow, how is the performance of this cards? HPT PATA controllers
> was always bad in performance and if it has got SATA to PATA converter,
> I can't imagine how fast/slow it could be.

If you are doing software raid its pretty irrelevant. With current
drives the cost of the multiple PCI transfers for each copy of the block
is the limiting factor on anything but PCI64/66Mhz really.

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