Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy a good/nice card. What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within linux, sort of like mdadm does, so that if/when a drive goes faulty I will be notified. I would also like to be able to use smartctl on the individual drives so I can gather information from them whilst linux is running. I have been looking at the Highpoint Rocket Raid 3530, this seems to fit the build for me, but thats from reading the doco. I was wondering has any one on the list been using these cards ? what is the management software like and the monitoring Thanks Alex -- "I'd rather have them sacrificing on behalf of our nation than, you know, endless hours of testimony on congressional hill." - George W. Bush 06/04/2002 Fort Meade, Maryland
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