Re: Offtopic: hardware advice for SAS RAID6

2007-11-23 Thread Sven Rudolph
Richard Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm considering my first SAS purchase. I'm planning to build a software RAID6 array using a SAS JBOD attached to a linux box. I haven't decided on any of the hardware specifics. I'm leaning toward this PCI express LSI 3801e controller:

RE: Offtopic: hardware advice for SAS RAID6

2007-11-21 Thread Daniel Korstad
I would be very interested to hear how that card works or other suggestions discussions too. I have a 10 disk RAID 6 all inside a large case, using on board MB SATA and a couple 4 port PCI SATA cards. For one, my PCI bus is saturated and a bottle neck and it is a bit of a pain to replace