Re: IDE controller card recommendation
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a
> stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The
> server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
> slots. I would like to get two PCI IDE controller cards to connect all the
> drives with. The server has an IDE CD-ROM, leaving 3 open slots in the
> on-board controllers. If I get two more cards (eah with two connectors), I
> should be able to connect 8 more hard drives.
fun .. that would normally be 8x 400GB of disk space :-)
> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up
> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience
> with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that
> experience).
what was the problem ?? which model .. where did you get it ..
- i think all parts should be bought at pc-parts-distributors
(reseller permit required) and not "me-too-virtual-web-stores"
why is promise not good ??? just the plain ole ide controller
- it is the same as maxtor ide controllers too
( same promise chip )
their hw raid controllers suck .. but what do you expect for under $2000
hw raid controllers .. one gets what one pays for ??
- don't ever use the motherboard bios based raid if your data
is important to you
- in my book, here is no other ide-chipset i would use when we ship off
to customers .. if you wanna pay $200 - $400 for 3ware .. i suppose
thats an option too .. but why .. for sw raid
more raid fun
http://1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/
what the raid performance result should look like
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20000329/fastrak66-14.html
c ya
alvin
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