I have two NIB SATA cards which I do not anticipate using. Any reasonable offer which exceeds shipping cost will be acceptable.
1) 3ware 8000 series SATA RAID Controller 8006-2LP. 2) PB3124-2SATA300 PCI-X 4 port Host Controller SiI 3124 Jim Tarvid On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:29 AM, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- http://ls.net
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