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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 09:57:48 -0500
From:      "Aaron C. Meadows" <freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Hardware RAID Cards..
Message-ID:  <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com>

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Hi there.

I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.

My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card?

Contingent question is, if I should get another RAID card, what would
be a good, supported, entry level card?  This server will be purposed
as a webserver for a small webhosting company, maybe 100 sites on it.
Running Postfix,Bind,Apache2,PHP,Postgresql,etc

Thanks for the help!

- --Aaron
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