RAID5 for Linux

[Bob Gorman]

This from the Fedora list, looked relevant:

>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:00:27 -0600 
>From: Guy Fraser <guy at incentre.net> 
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> 
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>Most SATA raid controllers are not true hardware raid, most are standard SATA controllers with RAID in the BIOS, and it uses the systems cpu to do the RAID. 3Ware and a few other vendors make true hardware RAID SATA controllers that have their own processor to handle the raid on board, but as one would expect they cost more.
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>We use both hardware and software RAID at work for different projects. I have had drive failures on both types and the hardware RAID systems were easier to diagnose and fix {Hot Swap}, but both types recovered without loss of data. 
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