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> Just to note that this a comparison between a current system running 
> Vinum, and quite possibly the worst PCI RAID card ever manufactured by 
> anyone, anywhere. 8)

	*sigh* Thanks mike. Ruin a perfectly good MS type of PR for us :-)
This was great "See clueless boss! Vinum is FASTER then HW RAID! Lets use
FreeBSD" fluff benchmarking :-)

> Nope.  This is why you use a real (tm) RAID controller. 8)

	True. If you *need* to boot from / and have / on a RAID setup.
For me it's mostly /var/spool/postfix that I need RAID-0 for. And Vinum is
really fast for that.

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