Re: OT: RAID Controllers
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:35, Jacob S. 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?
MegaRAID has always been good to Linux. Being a DBA, I'd only
specify RAID controllers with lots of cache and a battery backup.
For rack-mount systems, I'd choose simple raid controllers, and a
storage controller (invisible to Linux, since it's behind the RAID
controller) that has upwards of 512MB cache and on-line changeable
cache batteries. (It's the storage controller that is what the
drives plug into. The DEC/Compaq/HP HSZ80 is my favorite.
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