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Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
on 11/12/01 4:07 AM, Mike Bloor at asia@seratel.ie 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.
>
They reduce the load, but do not completely offload it. The CPU is still the
master controller.
Jim Snyder
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