you also have the ability to move the array to a different sata
controller. not such a big deal for very high end controllers, but for
on mboard raid - you may weap when a dead mboard means that the on-disk
data is no longer accessible.
Dean
Jonas Lund wrote:
Yes, most softraid cards are some kind of accelerator modules. However
the reason to use gmirror mainly seems to be reliability. As these
cards might not be that well used they've simple got less mature
drivers than the standard (S)ATA stack.
2009/5/21 Dean Hamstead <[email protected]>:
its worth benchmarking for yourself and seeing if your 64bit powerhouse can
outperform the raid cpu.
most of the time you will see soft raid doign better
Dean
Gary D. Margiotta wrote:
I have used several of these cards under FreeBSD. They are not hardware
raid cards, they do not have dedicated processors on them.
However, they work just fine, and you can set the raid up in the card's
bios, and freebsd will recognize the disk as a single unit. However, I
don't bother, I use gmirror, it's all about the same at that point. I
don't remember off the top of my head which driver it uses, but I didn't
need to add anything.
-Gary
Ivan Voras wrote:
hi,
Is the product described at:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1520.htm
a "real" (not soft-) RAID? Is it supported by hptrr? (judging by the man
page and a quick glance at the code, it doesn't look like it is)
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