[plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[Patrick Tehvand]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:24, Simon Scott wrote:
> >> 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?

I assumed software when it was asked as redhat 7.x and no mention of
raid controller.


cheers

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