Re: SATA controller cards
- From: Michael Zawrotny <zawrotny@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Mar 2007 17:03:52 GMT
On 29 Mar 2007 Mark Mackey <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations/anti-recommendations for SATA
controller cards? I'd like to set up a reasonably beefy software-RAID
disk server, and need more that the 6 or so SATA ports that you get on
the motherboard. Note that I neither need nor want a RAID controller,
just something that will expose a bunch of disks to the OS with nice
solid support from not-too-bleeding-edge kernels.
Take a look at the 3ware Escalades. They are hardware RAID, but can
be configured as JBOD to use software RAID, and come in sizes upto
16 ports IIRC. I'm in the process of building a large fileserver
based on those.
I also have an existing server based on Areca RAID cards, which also
work well. When I built that one, I had to download and install the
kernel module, but my workstation (Ubuntu) has the module bundled in.
The last time I looked around at some of the vendors I use, I had
trouble finding multiport cards that didn't have RAID built into
them.
Mike
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