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Subject: Re: Dell hardware raid 0 (sas5ir) or gmirror?
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On 1/15/07, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm purchasing a new server, and was wondering what anyone thought about
> whether to pay extra for the SAS5IR card so I can RAID0 the two drives,
> or whether to just rely on gmirror.  My worry about the former is that I
> can't seem to find management tools for controlling the hardware
> controller.  What if one of the drives fails?  How would I know?

By all means I would go the gmirror way, and I always do
even when a hardware raid controller is already present.