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) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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