Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:00:36 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Josef Karthauser" <joe@tao.org.uk>, stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell hardware raid 0 (sas5ir) or gmirror? Message-ID: <cb5206420701150600k57212896s3ef664beb4107ae0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070115112106.GA2304@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20070115112106.GA2304@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On 1/15/07, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> wrote: > I'm purchasing a new server, and was wondering what anyone thought about > whether to pay extra for the SAS5IR card so I can RAID0 the two drives, > or whether to just rely on gmirror. My worry about the former is that I > can't seem to find management tools for controlling the hardware > controller. What if one of the drives fails? How would I know? By all means I would go the gmirror way, and I always do even when a hardware raid controller is already present.
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