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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?
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At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software

This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd
be a big plus for RAID 5, though.

--Brett