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...SCSI. Big difference in > > poerformance! > > Be aware that those are pure numbers that, unfortunately, don't translate > into the real world. I hope I addressed this adequately above. > My experience is that the U320 SCSI will easily give the same throughput but > with substatianlly lower CPU usage if you use software RAID. I compared a $15,000 SCSI RAID system with the $2,500 AMD based 3WARE RAID5 system. True, the CPU load on the dual MP1600 was a little higher than on the more expensive brand name system, but at what cost difference?? Also, the 3WARE IDE RAID system ran r...