Recommended SATA card?

[Serge van Ginderachter]

You might want to read the comments on my 3 days old post, which are interesting.

  http://www.vanginderachter.be/2008/on-software-vs-hardware-raid/

Areca is less known, but considered better than 3ware in my book. But those are RAID controllers, 
on a more high-er end than  what you seem to look for.


        Serge

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----- "David Abrahams" <dave at boostpro.com> wrote:

> on Mon Jun 16 2008, Ante Karamatic <ivoks-AT-grad.hr> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:01 -0500
> > "James Dinkel" <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The controller is going to be the issue here.  Any brands of cards
> >> that use the same controller are going to be equally supported. 
> You
> >> could check what controller is on your motherboard and try to get
> a
> >> card with that same controller.  However, the Promise SATA
> controller
> >> is very popular and I *believe* is well supported in linux.
> >
> > Promise will bring you bad results. I would suggest 3ware.
> LSI/Intel
> > will also work, but as Promise, provide bad results :/
> >
> > Note that I'm talking about RAID cards...
> 
> Actually I don't think I care about hardware RAID.  My plan is to use
> a
> NexentaStor VM to run a RAID-Z array, which I guess is technically
> software RAID.
> 
> My websearches have not shown any overwhelmingly positive
> 3ware-on-Hardy
> reviews.  Is there a specific model you would recommend?
> 
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> Dave Abrahams
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