Mark Hahn wrote:
I have 4x500GB Maxtor SATA drives and I want to attach
these to a 4-port SATA PCI card and RAID5 them using "md"
Could anybody recommend a card that will have out of
box support on a Fedora system ?
which FC release? I believe FC4 would have decent support for
promise tx4's (there are at least two - the most recent might
not work OOB). sil 3114's ought to work as well.
Hi
Currently FC4, but I could update to FC5 on these machines if necessary.
I should add that performance is not really an issue - it's mostly
a read-only data store. I don't really want to fork out 250 UKPounds
per SATA card (i.e. 3ware 8506) since I don't need
the capabilities (hardware RAID) nor the performance (but I suppose
if I'm forking out 750 UKP for disks what's another 250?)
Mike Hardy recommended the Addonics ADST114 (sil 3114) which has an entry on
this page:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
A little bit outdated though. (Amazing how many "RAID" cards are "fakeraid")
Thanks for the help!
Ian
3ware. Period. If you're going to use md, get the 8506-4 series rather
than either of the 9xxx series cards.
before the 9550, I never found attractive in price/performance:
expensive as hell and a lot slower than MD. but the 9550 is really
quite impressive...
regards, mark hahn
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