on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:35:02PM -0500, Jacob S. (stormspotter@6texans.net) wrote:
> I'm still a little new to the RAID side of the world and the hardware
> howto doesn't have the information I'm looking for.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for good hardware RAID(5)
> controllers (mainly SCSI, but possibly IDE too) that are supported by
> Linux?
My experience strongly suggests SW RAID, or a good SCSI RAID controller.
My experience with 3Ware cards on RAID 0/1/5 systems is decidely mixed,
likely a combination of issues with both 3Ware and ATA drive flakiness.
SCSI will be much more robust on both counts.
Peace.
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