What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 12 February 2007 00:34, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> One guy that I happen to know, who was responsible for the database
> backend servers of Germany's biggest web mail provider at the time,
> ran extensive benchmarks. Result: for RAID 1, RAID 0 and RAID 1+0
> there is no difference in "hardware RAID" vs. OS mirroring and
> striping. He used Linux, but I'd bet a huge amount that his
> findings can be transferred to arbitrary current operating systems.

Software RAID won't help you if your primary disk gets an error in, say, the 
second stage loader.

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