Re: Raid Card controller for FC System

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edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thomas Kappelmueller wrote:
> 
>> edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Thomas Kappelmueller wrote:
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>>>    
>>>
>>>> Todd Denniston wrote:
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>>>>      
>>>>
>>>>> Roger Heflin wrote, On 03/24/2008 02:20 PM:
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>>> edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>>>>>          
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>
>>  
>>
> Hello,
> 
> Why didn't use hardware raid for the Linux ( FC ) System ?

Hardware-Raid is much more expensive and for home usage it is absolutely
not nesessary.

> Is there two ports of S-ATA also ?

There is one card with 2 Sata Ports (Sil3112).

> Does FC System built-in driver with it ?

The built-in FC8 driver works fine, no need to install additional content.

> 
> Thank for your comment again...
> 
> Edward.
> 
> 


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