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Old 22nd July 2008
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Hello, thanks for replying. I did originally use FreeBSD's software RAID (gstripe) but fsck was always reporting problems when I used this; switching to the card's inbuilt RAID stopped all that. The worst example of this was when I installed disk benchmark software from ports; I ran it a few times and the result was the volume was destroyed - I lost gigabytes of data. I use the same cards in my Windows XP box using Windows' software RAID 0 and have never lost any data (come to think of it, I've used Windows in all it's iterations from 95 to XP and FreeBSD is the only OS where I've suffered serious data loss)

I'm using the 32 bit architecture with 1 gig of RAM; the volume will not be heavily used, just occasional file browsing and file saves - do you think its worth the risk using ZFS?
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