edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 $300US, the 8-port >>>> cards are quite a bit more. If you are a home user I would suggest >>>> not wasting your money on the HW raid, and has others mentioned it >>>> is not really worth the extra money for a home user, so use software >>>> raid. >>>> >>>> Most of the cheaper cards are fakeraid and at best (if supported >>>> under DMRAID) are only slightly better than software raid. >>>> >>>> Roger >>>> >>> So would the better question be: >>> Which model / type of ATA multi-port card controller is good when you >>> want to do software RAID with New Fedora System? >>> i.e. which manufactures cards that you can hang 4+ drives off of, >>> have enough independence[1] between drives, that doing software RAID >>> works fast[2]? >>> Can you get 4+ port SATA cards that don't claim to be "RAID" cards? >>> >>> Or has everything already been said here: >>> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html >>> http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html >>> >>> [1] I am making the old assumption that ATA drives on the same bus >>> slow each other down. Does that really matter with SATA? >>> >>> [2] assuming the controller card is more likely to be the bottleneck >>> than the processor, PCI bus, or drives. >>> >> Hi! >> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix >> I would buy a card which drivers have the most features. >> >> I chose a cheap "Silicon Image"-chipped sata1 card (sata_sil driver). >> Hotplugging etc is working fine. >> >> >> The sata_sil24 is the SATA2 chip. >> >> -Tom >> > Hello, > > Would you mind tell me your web site of your card model ? > > Thank for your comment! > > Edward. > hi! http://www.st-lab.com/productf.asp It is the one with 4 Ports. It cost me something like 20€/25$ Btw I use Linux Software-Raid on it. If you can't get that card just search google for something like "SiI3114 controller card". The newer chips are called Sil3124 and i think there are also some with 8 Ports but I'm not sure. Hope that helps -Tom
