On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:51:36PM -0500, Andrew Plumb wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > For those who do use hardware RAID5 cards for ATA IDE drives, which > cards have you (not) had success with, for use in a mythtvbackend > machine? Or in any Linux-based machine for that matter? > > I'm pondering picking up something like a Promise FastTrak SX4000. > > Thanks! > > Andrew. > > -- > > If you don't know what to do, do something.
3ware is what I'd recommend. Promise is cheap for both cost and quality. I prefer spending the money for the card on another drive and getting a cheap $10 PCI ide card and doing software raid5. I've done this with many systems and it's more reliable than promise cards. --Brandon
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