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Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
Many motherboard RAID controllers don't have extra processing capacity,
they just have the hardware controller and firmware for BIOS support.
asia@seratel.ie (Mike Bloor) wrote:
> Preben,
>
> At 12:34 11/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Lastly, these stand alone Raid cards - unlike raid solutions on
> >motherbords - have their own processors on board which takes over
> all the
> >hard work, freeing up your system processor.
>
> I knew that RAID in software (e.g. as part of Windows NT4) worked on
> the main CPU, but I thought that PC's with additional RAID hardware on
> the motherboard (such as many of the Dell servers) off loaded these
> tasks.
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