On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:27, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2004, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am in the market for a hardware SATA raid card which should at least > > do RAID 5 and of course work with Fedora. Most cards are for 64-bit PCI > > busses only. Are there any cards which work on a standard 32-bit PCI > > bus? I know I won't get max performance but for the time being... > > yes, the 3ware cards work in 32bit pci slots. something like a 8506 with > some reasonably fast disk will get into the range of perhaps 70MB/s > writeing on a big raid-5 stripe so you can get most of the performance > you'd expect out of a 32bit pci card, it's just that when you add a second > one and a couple of gigabit ethernets it's not going to continue to scale > very well. I have looked at 3ware (now AMCC it seems) but I am not sure if there is proper (open-source) support for this 8506 yet. Thanks. > > > Thanks, > > > > Jurgen > > > > > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > >
