Clifton Royston
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:30:18 -0800
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:22:20PM -1000, Brian Chee wrote: > I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option on > PCI RAID controllers.... > > These are going into 1RU SuperMicro machines that tend to run hot....so that > is a bit of a consideration. I¹d like to use the same RAID controller for > both Windows 2003 Server AND Debian Linux both... > > /brian chee
Even though you're looking for Linux supported cards, there's a thread
on freebsd-stable right now you might want to look through, discussing
reliable inexpensive SATA controllers.
Thread title is: "hardware for home use large storage"
For BSD or Linux machines, I tend to think you're just as well off
with software RAID, at least until you get to fairly high-end systems
(e.g. external enclosures with their own RAID controllers.) If the card
has to do RAID under Windows, though, hardware RAID may be the only
reasonable option.
-- Clifton
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