Re: which SATA-raid controller...
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:08:31PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>hello.
>
>we are planning to set up a serial-ATA based fileserver (>1 Terabyte).
>the host will be dedicated solely to serving files (via samba and nfs
>(and probably appletalk), so i was thinking about a software-raid solution.
>
>are there any cards you would recommend ?
>i was thinking about highpoint rocketraid-1820a (i think there are only
>proprietary drivers available, but it has 8 SATA-channels) or promise
>fasttrack s150-sx4 (only 4 SATA-channels)
>anything else ? (3ware and adaptec cards are most likely better (? in
>terms of what ?) but i guess they have their prize for getting true
>hardware-raid which i don't really need).
at under $30, the addonics ADSA2 [1] is inexpensive. as long as you use
the drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c at or newer than "0.54" (~Jun 16 01:18)
which is when it became reliable for me.
I typically get the high side of 41 to 52 Mb/sec and I've heard of a
stripped software raid getting 100 Mb/sec.
that one has two channels, other models have more, how many pci slots do
you have? Might be worthwhile to price out FlashDisk [2] too.
// George
[1] http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/sata_controller.asp
[2] http://www.winsys.com/products/flata.php
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