on Tue Jun 17 2008, <n2vip-AT-verizon.net> wrote: >>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.
Well, as I said, I'm going to be using RAID-Z, but I think it's the same principle as linux software RAID. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
