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Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..
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> RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.)  RAID that
> is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software
> implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID
> configurations, which is not always the case otherwise.

always - if you use software RAID (gmirror) properly.