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From: Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk>
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Cc: Benjamin D Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com>, freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Best RAID setup
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Benjamin,

Consider that you don't have to raid the entire disc, so you could 
create make one volume for performance which is stripped over all three 
discs and have another area for security is a mirror, raid3, raid5, etc.

Dom