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Subject: Re: Advice on RAID card
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> There is a huge advantage to software raid on all kinds of levels. If  
> you have the CPU then I suggest
> it. However you will never get the performance out of software raid on  
> the high level (think 1 gig of cache)
> that you would on a software raid setup.
>
> It is a bit of a tradeoff but for most installations software raid is  
> more than adequate.

	Which makes me think that I will use Software Raid 5 and convert the  
price of the card into RAM.
	This should be nice for a budget server.
	Gonna investigate now if Linux software RAID5 is rugged enough. Can  
always buy the a card later if not.

	Thanks all for the advice, you were really helpful.