Re: HW Raid

[Victor Padro <vpadro@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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