SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Sun Apr 2 03:03:40 UTC 2006


On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, 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.

You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
(well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)

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