> according to the Linux Raid Wiki¹, Hardware RAID 1 is better than Software RAID 1. Don't take that too much into consideration - the article was last updated

> according to the Linux Raid Wiki¹, Hardware RAID 1 is better than Software RAID 1. Don't take that too much into consideration - the article was last updated in 2007 ( https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Overview&action=history https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Overview&action... ) so it lacks some details (the same can be said as well for many ZFS-related infos that you might find) => nowadays doublechecking articles related to raid and ZFS is a must. In my case I bought some HBA (Host Bus Adapter) cards (e.g. LSI SAS 9211-8i), set their BIOS to not do anything special with the HDDs connected to it (to be able to use them as well with other controllers) and used mdadm (earlier) or ZFS (now) to create my RAIDs => it works well, i get max throughput of ~200MiB per disk, I have all fancy features of ZFS without the problem of proprietary stuff related to the controller card :)