On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Rick Moen wrote:
> About the only ATA ("IDE") hardware-RAID controller I'd even consider is
> 3Ware's. The others are either incomplete (the drive-array equivalent
> of winmodems) or require proprietary binary-only drivers, or both.
> 3Ware have at least one model that furnishes four separate ATA chains --
> very helpful in order to avoid putting any two ATA hard drives on a
> single chain, which cripples performance. But then, beware of heat
> problems with all those ribbon cables snaking across the inside of your
> case.
Ah but then come the rounded ide cables to the rescue! Shaved ~4 deg C
from my case's internal temperature. That's according to lm_sensors of
course... \8)
Sometimes its also ok to get a firmware raid card and run it using
software RAID, because at least for Promise PDC, you will definitly get
ATA-100, which is sometimes iffy if your onboard IDE is not supported by
the linux IDE UDMA driver (read: Serverworks chipset can only go up to
ATA-33).
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