Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

From: Aaron C. Meadows (freebsd-questions_at_shadowguarddev.com)
Date: 05/24/05

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To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>

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    I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
    I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.

    Kirk Strauser wrote:

    >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
    >
    >>My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
    >>would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
    >>card?
    >
    >
    >What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for
    >example, but parity might put a bit of a load on a hard-working system.
    >
    >That's a good question, though. Several cards are listed in the hardware
    >compatibility notes, but they stop short of saying "this card is completely
    >supported" or "stay away from this one". What cards have people had good
    >luck with in practice?
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