Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
One thing that HW RAID has, though, that SW RAID fundamentally cannot get, is a battery backed write cache. This can, for many workloads, prove to give a very significant performance advantage (for sync heavy workloads you can get several orders of magnitude speedup). For other workloads it won't matter, of course.
I'd note that battery backed caches on the RAID cards I've looked at in the last few months seem to come at a *significant* premium over the base price of the card (50-100% type significant).
Not a reason not to opt for it, but the cost-benefit of a battery-backed cache versus a UPS backed server might be worth investigating.
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