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> The common explanation is that CPUs are so fast now that it doesn't make  
> a difference.
>  From my experience software raid works very, very well. However I have  
> never put
> software raid on anything that is very heavily loaded.

	Even for RAID5 ? it uses a bit more CPU for the parity calculations.
	An advantage of software raid, is that if the RAID card dies, you have to  
buy the same one ; whether I think that you can transfer a bunch of  
software RAID5 disks to another machine if the machine they're in dies...