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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:33:19 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lars@gmx.at
Subject:   Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?
Message-ID:  <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at>
References:  <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at>

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On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
> Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
>
> IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
> as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
> is just as fast as any RAID controller.

You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
(well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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