Peter da Silva wrote:
In article ,
John-Paul Stewart wrote:

Yes. If you look at the CPUs on RAID cards, they're a lot less
powerfull than the host CPU (even on the most expensive $1000+ cards).
However, that assumes that there are CPU cycles available on the host
(i.e., it is *not* CPU bound, as the previous poster mentioned).


If your file server is CPU bound you're doing something seriously wrong.

Who said this is limited to discussions of file servers? Database
servers (or other specialized application servers) may well be CPU bound
and directly connected to a large RAID.