Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:33:19 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lars@gmx.at Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? Message-ID: <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at> References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at>
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--nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote: > Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? > > IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, > as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller > is just as fast as any RAID controller. You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBELz745ZPcIHs/zowRAtEwAJ41tKk1YjQ7N+XB1ep/+qft3S4gQgCgpD/p tnTA5N6iVRRXCt9Jb58/THU= =8DAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut--
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