state of ide raid

[Michael R. Wayne]

We've been messing with some of the IDE RAID controllers without
a lot of success.  All we care about is RAID 1 on a single disk
(basically to get high availablity on simple servers).

Our tests with Highpoint controllers indicate that the system
becomes essentially unavailable during rebuild.  We'd like to find
an IDE RAID solution that did not suffer from this problem since
the only reason we want the RAID is to increase uptime, not reduce
it.

Almost seems like the right answer would be a device that went
between the controller and 2 drives to mirror the data.  This would
mean no O/S support (or knowledge) is required.  But the only ones
I've found do not support current high capacity, high speed drives.

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