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Cc: Omer Faruk Sen <omerfsen@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid
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>
> ar RAID devices are almost always software/BIOS RAID.  In this case
> intel matrix raid is software RAID provided by the system BIOS.  The

it's always better to use gmirror. not mentioning more flexibility (you do 
not have to mirror whole drives)