>From: David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/06/16 Mon PM 08:00:03 EDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Recommended SATA card?
>on Mon Jun 16 2008, "Owen Townend" <owen.townend-AT-gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17/06/2008, James Dinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> >> then I'd suggest the Silicon Image SiL3114/3124 chipset cards (SATA >> I/II, four ports). They're supported natively by the kernel, so no >> third party drivers needed and I've seen them around for ~US$30/$60 on >> ebay. > >That's a lot cheaper than some of the 3ware cards I've seen. The 3Ware cards are hardware RAID, and the Silicon Image cards are (at best) low-end software RAID with horrible performance (in my exp., but that was on Windows Server box with under-powered CPU - I tried to go RAID5 with a Celeron 2.0 GHz and one of these cards, it was horrible)... I assume they make perfectly fine "straight" SATA I/II ports to use with Linux Software RAID - I had fine performance out of the card when used just for SATA port expansion on the same Celeron Win2003 server box. Ken Hansen -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
