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From: Christopher Smith <csmith@nighthawkrad.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:38:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442D22CD.3010602@nighthawkrad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442BFB2B.6090903@stams.strath.ac.uk>

Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
> 
> Dear All
> 
> 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 ?

I have had a lot of success with Promise TX4 cards, with the caveat that 
  more than two controllers can't be in the same box (or couldn't as of 
a few months ago - this may have been fixed).  They're fairly cheap and 
run on a 66Mhz PCI bus, if you've got one, whereas most of the other 
cheap cards are only regular 33Mhz.  Mine (with 4x250G 7200rpm drives) 
can sustain about 200MB/sec if configured in a RAID0.

I haven't seen a better card from a price/performance perspective if 
you're going to use md.

CS

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-30 15:37 Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ? Ian Thurlbeck
2006-03-30 15:59 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2006-03-31  3:38   ` Mark Hahn
2006-03-31  8:08     ` Ian Thurlbeck
2006-03-31 15:05       ` Mark Hahn
2006-03-31  9:28     ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-03-31 10:25       ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2006-03-31 10:48         ` Re[2]: " Jim Klimov
2006-03-31 10:29     ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2006-03-31 12:30       ` Jon Lewis
2006-03-30 16:02 ` Mike Hardy
2006-03-31 12:38 ` Christopher Smith [this message]
2006-04-01  0:28   ` Brad Campbell
2006-04-01 11:51     ` Christopher Smith
2006-04-01 13:38       ` Brad Campbell

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