SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

[Dominic Marks]

Tenebrae wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Ah, I knew I should have mentioned this.
> The motherboard I will be using has no native SATA support so I will need
> to purchase a(n) SATA controller anyway.
> Also, I tend to prefer hardware solutions to software solutions
> (*cough*evilWinModem*cough*).

I started using only 3ware cards a while ago. It was a good choice. Lots 
of other seem to have the same experience too.

>> Also maybe see: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
>> for more details.
> 
> Thanks.  I'll have a look.
> 
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Dominic