I need further HDD advice before submitting order.

[freebsd.org at donnacha.com]

Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first 
> post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror.  It uses the 
> new GEOM code (like gvinum) but gmirror has a man page and is feature 
> complete.  As of 5.3, gvinum did not have all the commands implemented 
> (not sure about it in 5.4).
> 
> If you are not using 5.x then sorry for missing the beginning of the 
> thread.

No, it will be 5.3 sure enough, that's their standard install I think, 
upgrading to 5.4 will be one of my first tasks.

Will definitely check out gmirror and any other options, got to make 
this as idiot-proof as possible because, sadly, I'm an idiot.

Thanks,

Donnacha