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> If you aren't using ZFS, or even a GEOM volume with mirror/RAID5/softup/etc,
> you cannot make the statement that hardware RAID is faster.  I learned 
> that 3 years ago.

i state exactly opposite. all hardware raid cards are made just to suck 
money from those who believe in it.

like "performance is not enough - buy better/more expensive model."

> This does not go for EMC, IBM, Hitachi high-end storage arrays where you write to TBs of RAM Cache.
having same amount of extra memory on FreeBSD server directly will make 
better use of it.