On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 05:50:25PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 05/15/2015 05:26 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> >On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:59:21PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> >>
> >>Intel's C224 chipset supports Intel's Rapid Storage
> >>Technology Enterprise (RSTe).  He "e" is for "Enterprise".
> >>It can be used for RAID 0, 1, 10.
> >>
> >
> >Snake oil.
> >
> 
> Supermicro sent me this from Intel's RSTe documentation:
> ...
> What am I missing?
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine

the main thing is that the supposed benefits cannot be reliably quantified.

in your case, the vendor says "enterprise" and "trim" and "rapid",
but is it any better than plain mdadm software raid, better by what criteria?

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