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RAID 0 w/ KT7

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frail

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Need a few questions straightened out for me after reading through all the posts I could find.

1) The KT7 RAID board itself is all I need? No crazy $200 cards or anything?

2) I understand the main speed is not seek time, only transfer. But what someone said caught my attention, I guess since the board is all i'm using to make my RAID, and RAID 0 isn't really classified as hardware RAID, it's software.

Getting to the point, RAID 0 with the KT7 is considered software RAID, and is dependent on the CPU? Is this some sorta huge slow down, or not even noticeable?
 
It's all Hardware. You've got a controller chip on the motherboard, the HiPoint370 I think it is (I'm too lazy to read the manual that's sitting in front of me).

With software RAID, which Linux, NT, and Win2k do, the OS pretends that the two drives are one. For striping, the OS sends the data to each drive independently, and the OS has to make the decision which drive it will go on. For mirroring, the OS sends the same data to both drives, and to do that it has to send it twice.

With hardware, the RAID controller only allows the OS to SEE a single drive, so the OS doesn't know what's going on, it just sends the data once and the controller either stripes it or mirrors it. The OS just gets the data back twice as fast with a striped setup.
 
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