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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