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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 14:48:40 -0500
From:      "Aaron C. Meadows" <freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardware RAID Cards..
Message-ID:  <42938518.9070909@shadowguarddev.com>
In-Reply-To: <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com>

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I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.

Kirk Strauser wrote:

>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>
>What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for
>example, but parity might put a bit of a load on a hard-working system.
>
>That's a good question, though. Several cards are listed in the hardware
>compatibility notes, but they stop short of saying "this card is completely
>supported" or "stay away from this one". What cards have people had good
>luck with in practice?
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