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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:39:27 -0700
From:      Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject:   Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <42BEF65F.5060409@pcmedx.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org>
References:  <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org>

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Brett Glass wrote:
> I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of
> mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this
> purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID
> functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability.
> A system that could re-mirror a replacement drive with minimal
> impact on performance would be ideal.

The 3ware 7000 series cards work great. Not sure about hot swap with IDE 
though. I'd go with a 8000 series card and SATA drives for that.

Mike



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