From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 07:35:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D2F16A402 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rossettigab@charter.net) Received: from smtp-02.datacomm.ch (smtp-02.datacomm.ch [212.40.2.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE3E13C4C2 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rossettigab@charter.net) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (zue-tix-adsl-dynip-177-181.vtx.ch [83.228.177.181]) by smtp-02.datacomm.ch (VTX Datacomm AG) with ESMTP id 554772A412E for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:02:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4600D8D9.3010401@charter.net> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:03:53 +0100 From: Gabriel Rossetti User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Best software raid 5 software? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:35:11 -0000 Hello, I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some exercise :-) I've heard of several software-based raid-5 projects, mainly of Vinum, has anybody tested it or any other ones? Which would you suggest? Thank you, Gabriel