Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

[Scott Gerhardt]

There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 
0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data.
You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but 
all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host 
raid) and require special software drivers in the OS.  You are much 
better off purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 
3Ware 8006-2LP 2 port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port 
controllers.  They do true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD.

Hope that answers your question.

Thanks,

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Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo.
Gerhardt Information Technologies
On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> "Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 
> support"
>
> If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and 
> then mirror those together?  Or is it strip *or* mirror?
>
> also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that 
> resultant array?
>
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