[plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[Simon Scott]

>> Thanks for that, this would not be an issue, it'll be installed on a dual 
>>Xeon 2.4GHz with 2GB RDIMM server.
> Only issue is that it is a little bit heavy on the resources (cpu) on 
> occasions. 

Excuse me for being dense, but I thought that the whole idea of hardware raid
was that for all intents and purposes it appeared as a single IDE/SCSI drive?

Why is it using the CPU at all?

Unless you are talking software raid?