Thomas Kappelmueller wrote: > Todd Denniston wrote: > >> Roger Heflin wrote, On 03/24/2008 02:20 PM: >> >>> edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>>> Alan Cox wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:39:22 +0800 >>>>> edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Dear All, >>>>>> >>>>>> Which model / type of ATA Raid card controller is good for work >>>>>> with New FC System ? >>>>>> Would you please recommend ? >>>>> >>>>> Almost every 'raid' controller for ATA devices is just driver >>>>> level raid, >>>>> so equivalent to using the built in lvm/md raid support that works >>>>> with >>>>> any devices. At the high end there are a few hardware raid cards >>>>> but they >>>>> rarely outperform ordinary ATA on PCI Express. >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> Edward, >>> >>> The cheapest 4-port raid cards are typically $300US, the 8-port >>> cards are quite a bit more. If you are a home user I would suggest >>> not wasting your money on the HW raid, and has others mentioned it >>> is not really worth the extra money for a home user, so use software >>> raid. >>> >>> Most of the cheaper cards are fakeraid and at best (if supported >>> under DMRAID) are only slightly better than software raid. >>> >>> Roger >>> >> >> So would the better question be: >> Which model / type of ATA multi-port card controller is good when you >> want to do software RAID with New Fedora System? >> i.e. which manufactures cards that you can hang 4+ drives off of, >> have enough independence[1] between drives, that doing software RAID >> works fast[2]? >> Can you get 4+ port SATA cards that don't claim to be "RAID" cards? >> >> Or has everything already been said here: >> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html >> http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html >> >> [1] I am making the old assumption that ATA drives on the same bus >> slow each other down. Does that really matter with SATA? >> >> [2] assuming the controller card is more likely to be the bottleneck >> than the processor, PCI bus, or drives. >> > > Hi! > http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix > I would buy a card which drivers have the most features. > > I chose a cheap "Silicon Image"-chipped sata1 card (sata_sil driver). > Hotplugging etc is working fine. > > > The sata_sil24 is the SATA2 chip. > > -Tom > Hello, Would you mind tell me your web site of your card model ? Thank for your comment! Edward.
