Re: SCSI Raid Controller recommendations

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com>]

The only RAID Cards I recommend anymore are the ICP Vortex cards.  They've 
got a good product line, tools and monitoring available for basically every 
OS, they are FULLY online.  You can get into the configuration area from 
within your host OS, be it Windows, DOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Netware, etc. 
They're fast cards, and fairly reasonably priced.

They are pregnant devices too....that is they either work, or don't.  If 
it's DOA (had one full-length happen, this was years ago) then its dead, 
but if it's good on first boot, it'll run till the entire system dies, and 
then you can put it in another box :)  I've got one right here in my 
desktop that's been through Thre servers before it got downgraded to 
desktop duty.

--On Friday, December 03, 2004 21:44 -0600 Rod Rodolico 
<stargazer@rodolico.org> wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a scsi raid controller for debian. I like the
> serveraid from IBM, but, when I last built a box with this, the
> monitoring software was only for Redhat and stuff.
>
> Fairly small box. Probably 3 18.6G in a RAID-5 is all I need. And,
> U160 would be fine, as would PCI-32. But, I would like to monitor
> the thing from /proc or something.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rod
>
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