Highpoint RR1520?

[Dean Hamstead]

you also have the ability to move the array to a different sata 
controller. not such a big deal for very high end controllers, but for 
on mboard raid - you may weap when a dead mboard means that the on-disk 
data is no longer accessible.

Dean

Jonas Lund wrote:
> Yes, most softraid cards are some kind of accelerator modules. However
> the reason to use gmirror mainly seems to be reliability. As these
> cards might not be that well used they've simple got less mature
> drivers than the standard (S)ATA stack.
> 
> 2009/5/21 Dean Hamstead <dean at fragfest.com.au>:
>> its worth benchmarking for yourself and seeing if your 64bit powerhouse can
>> outperform the raid cpu.
>>
>> most of the time you will see soft raid doign better
>>
>> Dean
>>
>> Gary D. Margiotta wrote:
>>> I have used several of these cards under FreeBSD.  They are not hardware
>>> raid cards, they do not have dedicated processors on them.
>>>
>>> However, they work just fine, and you can set the raid up in the card's
>>> bios, and freebsd will recognize the disk as a single unit.  However, I
>>> don't bother, I use gmirror, it's all about the same at that point.  I
>>> don't remember off the top of my head which driver it uses, but I didn't
>>> need to add anything.
>>>
>>> -Gary
>>>
>>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is the product described at:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1520.htm
>>>>
>>>> a "real" (not soft-) RAID? Is it supported by hptrr? (judging by the man
>>>> page and a quick glance at the code, it doesn't look like it is)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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