vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

[Peter C. Lai]

I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do 
RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up 
the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the 
native card. Is this true? Should I not bother with doing the hardware raid 
and just go with vinum?

The rest of the system is a k6-2 400mhz with 256mb ram (amount might change).
I will also have moderate network i/o on the pci bus (obviously).

TIA,
cowbert
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Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
http://cowbert.2y.net/