Re: New system recommendations

smarlowe@g2switchworks.com (Scott Marlowe) writes:
> Note that some folks have mentioned that Dell uses their own
> firmware on these cards, and that firmware is supposedly slower than
> the stock firmware those cards come with.

Worse, the default behaviours apparently involve "works *like* RAID10"
as opposed to "implements RAID10."

I have visions here of Tom Hanks' SNL sketch, _Sabra Price Is Right_,
where he's selling all sorts of shoddy bits of junk, using the line
"like Sony guts" in it...
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