[svlug] Multi drive PCI SATA card or 6 port SATA motherboard

Marc MERLIN marc_news at merlins.org
Mon Mar 13 15:17:08 PST 2006


On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:11:20PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> "100 MB/sec RAID 5 sequential writes" is sad though, it's barely 2 drives'
> worth of bandwidth. At $700 for the card, I don't seem the point when I'm
> sure I can beat that with software raid.

Speaking of raid cards, I have multiple DAC 960/1124 hw raid cards that I'd
be happy to give away to someone who really needs hwraid over swraid.

I used them for a while until I realized that I could easily do better with
swraid.

Marc
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