FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

[Gabe]

--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers
> To: "Gabe" <nrml at att.net>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 4:45 AM
> > I have to build a file server that will need to run a
> RAID 0+1 config
> 
> the best is gmirror+gstripe. of course for those who want
> to pay there are a lot of "hardware" solutions.
> _______________________________________________

Hey I'm all for saving money, but I'm unsure of the reliability of a 'software' solution vs a hardware one. Not to mention my biggest concern which is the failure of the Boot drive and how to recover from that using software raid.

Thanks