On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 at 17:28, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Well IDE is kinda useless for any serious hardware RAID. The fact is, > most machines come equipped with only two IDE interfaces, and it's a > complicated matter to get more on board. Usually, off-board IDE > chipsets are much much slower than their on-motherboard counterparts > (for reasons that should be obvious), so performance suffers greatly. > Hardware RAID support is also quite iffy on Linux, and some motherboard > manufacturers have buggy BIOSes to support it.
While I am not refuting that SCSI is The Way To Go (tm) for high-end requirements, 3ware's true hardware IDE RAID controllers are good enough. These controllers come in four and eight port varieties, capable of doing RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10, plus JBOD. They also support hot-swapping and online rebuilding of degraded arrays with the 3dmd web-based front-end. The 7xxx series of 3ware controllers does very for RAID5 because of improved hardware vis a vis the 6xxx series that can do it albeit slower. In PLUG I know of two who use it (and AFAIK are happy with it), myself and Ian Sison. For those interested in checking it out, <http://www.3ware.com/>. (Disclaimer: I do not know if this can be purchased locally. However you can purchase it via their Singapore office. They can send the hardware by courier.) > I'd use SCSI if I had the money for it... And so would I. But if you don't have that much money but need true hardware RAID, the 3ware controllers come highly recommended. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
