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Subject: RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible
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Danny Howard <mailto:dannyman@toldme.com> wrote:
> Mike Loiterman wrote:
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>> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? 
>> The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty
>> expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card.  Is 5.3
>> compatible with any of the adpatec or promise cards? 
>> 
>> 
> What kind of RAID do you want?  For a simple system-level RAID1, skip
> the hardware and go with gmirror.
> 
> -danny

RAID1.  I'm looking into gmirror, but it seems like it might be messy if
one of the drives dies.

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