[wellylug] PCI RAID5 Controller cards + Linux

[Ian Sterling]

I would *highly* reccommend anything by 3Ware.  Their (S)ATA RAID
cards are the best, IHMO.  I've used both ATA and SATA in production
machines, and had little or no problems with them.  They show up to
the OS as SCSI devices - they're true HARDWARE RAID cards.  They're
not cheap, but they're well worth the money and 3Ware has drivers so
you can use the gooey, cli, or web-based tools.

--Ian...

On 8/13/05, Michael Dittmer <michael.dittmer at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm looking at purchasing a PCI-based (not PCI-X or PCI-E) RAID-5 controller
> card for my home server.
> 
> I'm not worried if it is PATA or SATA - but it needs to be hardware based
> and supported in Linux. I would like between 4 - 8 ports.
> 
> I'm not to worried about brand, as long as it works.
> 
> Now the reason I'm asking is that my server box (Dual PIII 1GHz) doesn't
> support IDE PATA disks larger then 137GB and also SME Server 6.x only
> supports software RAID-1.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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