On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Niall O Broin wrote:
> ALL RAID is software - it's just a question of where the software
> runs (and I include XOR engines here - still software, really, just
> very specialised software, runing on very specialised hardware)
Hmm, not that specialised. The Mylex ones were small embedded
computers (i960 and then XScale) - using normal SIMMs/DIMMs even.
Never seen any PERC cards, but no doubt similar thing.
regards,
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