There are lots of components that have been integrated into motherbords to reduce costs, such as modems, NICs and sound cards. It´s also known that almost all of this integrated components use HSP processors, so most of their workload is handled by the CPU.
OK, my Duron 700 is powerfull enough to give away a few clock cycles for this kind of integrated components.
But how about integrated RAID chips? Is it the same way?
I don´t think so, because handling that kind of Mb/s would kill my CPU. Heck, it should kill Deep Blue too !!!
So I believe that integrated RAID chips must have a dedicated processor, so that the CPU performance is not degraded.
Maybe some of you have tried integrated RAID chips solutions. So I´d like to know how much workload integrated RAID chips put on the CPU, and wheter their perfomance is comparable to the add-on PCI RAID cards.
By the way, I have a Gigabyte 7ZX-R rev 1.0 motherboard, with an integrated Promise PDC20265R ATA100 RAID chip. Any commnets you may want to post about this particular mobo/RAID chip regarding this issue will be more than welcomed.
OK, my Duron 700 is powerfull enough to give away a few clock cycles for this kind of integrated components.
But how about integrated RAID chips? Is it the same way?
I don´t think so, because handling that kind of Mb/s would kill my CPU. Heck, it should kill Deep Blue too !!!
So I believe that integrated RAID chips must have a dedicated processor, so that the CPU performance is not degraded.
Maybe some of you have tried integrated RAID chips solutions. So I´d like to know how much workload integrated RAID chips put on the CPU, and wheter their perfomance is comparable to the add-on PCI RAID cards.
By the way, I have a Gigabyte 7ZX-R rev 1.0 motherboard, with an integrated Promise PDC20265R ATA100 RAID chip. Any commnets you may want to post about this particular mobo/RAID chip regarding this issue will be more than welcomed.