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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:53:47 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <42BF15DB.7030303@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org>
References:  <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org>

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Brett Glass wrote:

> I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of
> mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this
> purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID
> functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability.
> A system that could re-mirror a replacement drive with minimal
> impact on performance would be ideal.

You don't need an additional controller necessarily, because you can set 
up a RAID 1 with two single ATA hard disks. You'll find a small how-to 
at [1]. Even most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities.

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

I have good experiences with SATA PCI controllers from Highpoint.

Björn



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