Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ?

[Ian Thurlbeck <ian@stams.strath.ac.uk>]

Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>I have 4x500GB Maxtor SATA drives and I want to attach
>>>these to a 4-port SATA PCI card and RAID5 them using "md"
>>>
>>>Could anybody recommend a card that will have out of
>>>box support on a Fedora system ?
> 
> 
> which FC release?  I believe FC4 would have decent support for 
> promise tx4's (there are at least two - the most recent might
> not work OOB).  sil 3114's ought to work as well.
>

Hi

Currently FC4, but I could update to FC5 on these machines if necessary.
I should add that performance is not really an issue - it's mostly
a read-only data store.  I don't really want to fork out 250 UKPounds
per SATA card (i.e. 3ware 8506) since I don't need
the capabilities (hardware RAID) nor the performance (but I suppose
if I'm forking out 750 UKP for disks what's another 250?)

Mike Hardy recommended the Addonics ADST114 (sil 3114) which has an entry on 
this page:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

A little bit outdated though.  (Amazing how many "RAID" cards are "fakeraid")

Thanks for the help!

Ian

> 
>>3ware.  Period.  If you're going to use md, get the 8506-4 series rather 
>>than either of the 9xxx series cards.
> 
> 
> before the 9550, I never found attractive in price/performance: 
> expensive as hell and a lot slower than MD.  but the 9550 is really
> quite impressive...
> 
> regards, mark hahn
> 
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