Adaptec vs Areca vs HighPoint

[Serra]

dual-cores

0% @ 4x raid0? you want to edit your post?

theres no superstition

ive posted many dvdshrink/nero results on areca 1210/1230

here you go,
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=126594

try and match that with a soft raid or single drive

Nope, no reason to edit my post. Fact is, RAID-0/1 just isn't processor intensive. I hate to break it to you, but all the same interrupts I get from it are the same that you do too, even with your hardware. Why? Because after the simple call, which goes out to the add-on card, all there is to return is something saying "I gots the datas", which has to go to the CPU anyway.

I would like to bring up that challenge, but my P5K Deluxe is kind of teh crappy with working with add-on cards (and as a result of which, I have gotten rid of all but 2 of my hard drives, some to external storage, some to other computers). I think it's very solvable without though - you find something your card does for RAID-0 or 1 that mine *can't* or that mine *can with greater stress in some limiting way* and I'll concede the point. Mind you, even if that were the case - and it is not - the difference would be AT BEST 1-2% (at the cost of $500-$600).

Edit: Plus, I notice you're using a 400x9 kenty in that post entitled "kenty power"... sadly, I'm hitting 3.0 - 3.2 *tops*... sigh.

Edit II: If someone wants to prove Areca RAID-1 performance is better, show me some results showing it taking seek times down >10% on random reads versus a single disk