hardware raid solutions?

[Liam Proven]

On 7/9/06, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> I need a relatively low-cost hardware raid solution (not pseudo
> hardware) so I can implement raid five on the root and boot partitions.
>   For a variety of reasons, I would take quite a bit of convincing to
> use software raid for this application.

I'm using Dell servers with Dell CERC PATA RAID cards at 2 clients.
The machines are actually running SME Server, not Ubuntu, but SME is
Red Hat 7.1 with additions; if they work on it, they'll work on most
things. Linux sees them as ALI MegaRAID cards and thinks they're SCSI
disks, but it all works fine - it uses the hardware RAIDs perfectly
(they are simple mirrors) but it can actually see the individual
drives for diagnostic purposes.

In the past I have mainly used Adaptec kit for RAID cards, but that was on SCSI.

3ware also have a good reputation for Linux compatibility with GPL drivers.

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