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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:24:16PM -0400, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> 
> After the second install, everything came up on the ar0 array
> and worked fine.  I ran some basic stress tests and was getting 16MB/sec
> write speed and 46MB/sec read.
> 
> So, I'm off to find a "real" SATA2 PCI RAID card...  :-(

"real" RAID cards cost an order of magnitude more than fakeraid cards.
What is your reason behind getting real hardware RAID?  From my own
personal testing and online research, software RAID outperforms most real
RAID cards.  So if your reasoning is based on performance gain, you may be
in for another shock.  If your reasoning is so that you can multi-boot
different OSes without requiring drivers, then you may have a compelling
reason to go to hardware RAID.  However, most cases fakeraid is good
enough.

-- Rick C. Petty