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From: "Phil Rosenthal" <winter@villaweb.net>
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Subject: Hardware RAID vs vinum
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 23:41:39 -0400
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I've been using vinum for about a year now, and have been using it on some
pretty large, heavily accessed RAID5 file system (500GB & 70MBits/sec
constantly ).
Is there any reason why a hardware raid would be better, am I missing out on
anything?
What hardware RAID cards are best under FreeBSD 4.6?

--Phil


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