Re: SCSI Raid Controller recommendations
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004, Michael Loftis wrote:
> 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.
Well, as far as Windows and Linux are concerned, the same holds for Intel's
Server RAID adapters. Debian included.
> They're fast cards, and fairly reasonably priced.
Hmm... "fast" ain't exactly true for the lower-end Intel RAID adapters :P
and whether you consider Intel hardware to be reasonably priced or not is
something _you_ have to decide :-) Anyway, I am a hard sell, and the only
Intel RAID card I like is the top configuration for SCRU42X...
> >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.
You could use even software RAID, then. Really. Unless you have need for
SAFTE monitoring or somesuch.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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