Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:50:20 +0200 From: Lars Cleary <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? Message-ID: <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost>
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Tenebrae wrote: > The server will be primarily an e-mail and web server for private use > with some rather large files. There are only a handful of users, but it > gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update. > I hope to get this up and running in the next month. > > If I've missed something painfully obvious here, please feel free to > educate me and/or point me to a URL. > > Thanks for any tips, Hi Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller is just as fast as any RAID controller. Also maybe see: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ for more details. HTH Lars
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