rocketraid 2522 question

[agentmonkey]

i have a question about my highpoint rocketraid 2522 (which by the way, runs like a champ)

it doesnt have any onboard cache, but it does have a heatsink that gets pretty hot, so does this thing qualify as software raid or hardware raid?

thanks for your help!

oh, and when reading/writing to it, win 7 task manager doesnt show any processor usage, and im running it as raid 5

 

[longblock454]

It is a software card. XOR calculations don't require much for modern CPUs and your not likely to see much load during writes.

 

[agentmonkey]

thanks
its just weird that it would have some kind of processor on it that gets pretty hot, if it wasnt doing anything.

 

[longblock454]

thanks
its just weird that it would have some kind of processor on it that gets pretty hot, if it wasnt doing anything.

Well it is, it still has a "controller" and HighPoint's "smart cache" or whatever they call it! It is plenty busy even without hardware XOR.