Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
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>> The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software
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> This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd
> be a big plus for RAID 5, though.

I don't know about the Highpoint (my 1820a is used as a jbod  
controller only -- the only one I could find that was low profile :-)  
but some better RAID controllers do the mirroring in HW as well -- no  
software drives the RAID functions.  My adaptec 2100S 2200S 2410A all  
do it this way, which I greatly prefer.  I like the "complexity" of  
the RAID completely hidden from the OS.

Chad

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> --Brett
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