Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-11 Thread Julian Cowley
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, R. Scott Belford wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:22:20PM -1000, Brian Chee wrote: > I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option on > PCI RAID controllers > > These are going into 1RU S

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:22:20PM -1000, Brian Chee wrote: > > I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option > on > > PCI RAID controllers > > > > These are going into 1RU SuperMicro machines that tend to run

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Chee
Hmmmconsidering just how many software raid systems have failed out from under me, I'd like to add a pinch of salt to your statement. For something as timing insensitive as say web/ftp/email services, yeah, I can totally agree with that statement. But something as timing sensitive as say SQL I

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:22:20PM -1000, Brian Chee wrote: > I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option on > PCI RAID controllers > > These are going into 1RU SuperMicro machines that tend to run hotso that > is a bit of a consideration. I¹d like to use the sa

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Bishop
When it comes to PATA and SATA, in my opinion, 3ware is still the best. Especially cross platform. Linux/Windows support is excellent. On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Brian Chee wrote: Yah know...that's been my knee jerk reaction for almost a decade now...but was trying to leave options open i

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Chee
Yah know...that's been my knee jerk reaction for almost a decade now...but was trying to leave options open in case folks have run across something else worth the time. Very interesting considering that they're now owned by LSI... /brian chee On 2/10/10 1:43 PM, "Vince Hoang" wrote: > Are th

Re: [LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Vince Hoang
Are there options besides 3ware? -Vince On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:22, Brian Chee wrote: I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option on PCI RAID controllers These are going into 1RU SuperMicro machines that tend to run hotso that is a bit of a consideratio

[LUAU] Favorite SATA or PATA RAID controllers

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Chee
I need to mirror (RAID 1) and was wondering about the collective option on PCI RAID controllers These are going into 1RU SuperMicro machines that tend to run hotso that is a bit of a consideration. I¹d like to use the same RAID controller for both Windows 2003 Server AND Debian Linux both.