Guy Fraser wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 11:35 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
Hey,
I look to change my server from scsi to s-ata
i have the following in my mind:
-Controller: Promise SATA300 TX2plus, 2 Ch. SATA Controller
-Disk: Samsung SP2504C, SpinPoint P120, 7200rpm, 250GB, SATA-II
as you remark, cheap, cheap, cheap :-)
i found some articles online about the promise-controllers SATA150 for
Kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x but nothing about the SATA300.
Somebody experienced??
Thanks,
Roger
If you are able spend a few more bucks, you might want to get
a 3ware raid controller. We just put one in a server and
are quite impressed with it. The server has 4 drives, and the
we set it up RAID 5 with a spare, the fourth drive stays
spun down until you pull one of the other drives, then it spins
up and rebuilds the volume.
I have thought about building a RAID box and the issue of hardware over
software RAID keeps coming up.
At present I am using the onboard SATA and PCI-SATA card for Software
RAID. I saw a low cost SATA-II with NCQ for four drives on one WWW site
but I cannot remember where. I was looking at getting two of these for
my new box and using Software RAID. Of course I haven't written off a
hardware raid solution yet.
--
Robin Laing
