SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

[Lars Cleary]

Tenebrae wrote:
> The server will be primarily an e-mail and  web server for private use
> with some rather large files.  There are only a handful of users, but it
> gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update.
> I hope to get this up and running in the next month.
> 
> If I've missed something painfully obvious here, please feel free to
> educate me and/or point me to a URL.
> 
> Thanks for any tips,
Hi

Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?

IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any RAID controller.

Also maybe see: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
for more details.

HTH
Lars