[svlug] Recommendations for SATA RAID controller under Linux

[Brian J. Tarricone]

I've never used SATA RAID controllers in particular, but might I 
suggest, whatever card you end up choosing, that you pick up two of them 
rather than one?  I've heard some pretty bad data loss stories when the 
card fails a few years down the road, and a compatible replacement can't 
be found.

Then again, SATA-type RAID might be different, and this might not be an 
issue, so feel free to smack me ^_~.

Sorry to not really answer your question, but have you looked into Linux 
software RAID?  You can do some pretty powerful stuff in combination 
with LVM2 or EVMS (though I think the LVM2 docs are more complete and 
better supported at this point).  Unless you don't have a recent box for 
it, the processing requirements shouldn't be too bad either.  And you 
don't have to worry about pesky failing controller hardware...

    -brian

Roland Krause wrote:

>Folks,
>Can anybody recommend a SATA RAID controller that works well under
>Linux? 
>
>Thanks,
>Roland
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