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Old 2009-03-13, 12:43 PM   #1903
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Originally Posted by cody View Post
Slower than what? You just said you didn't know of a way to do it with [hardware] RAID.
...with different branded cards/MB based. I believe 3Ware cards support cross card RAID configurations with relatively low overhead compared to OS level RAID. Driver/firmware level data splitting/aggregation optimized for specific HW kicks ass over OS level RAID which is SLOW!
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