Re: Inexpensive RAID1 controller for home server?

[Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>]

On 08/18/2012 03:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I wonder if there is direct knowledge here about this controller?
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-Rocket-SATA-PCI-Express-Controller/dp/B002VEWBGO

I have one of these in a non-critical home system (light duty media
server).  Rather old mobo, actually...  32bit w/ PCIe v1 slots.  Card
maxes out at 200MB/s in that system.  Theoretically capable of 500MB/s
in a PCIe v2 slot.

Kernel is vanilla 2.6.39.4 at the moment.  Card is bound to the ahci
driver with no problems.  Hotplug works fine, too.

>    I'm looking to add an inexpensive 2-port controller for a home
> server that's out of ports on the MB but has room in the chassis for a
> couple more drives running RAID1. The machine has been successfully
> running mdadm for the last couple of years and the power supply is
> plenty big enough to take on the new hardware.
> 
>    According the the Highpoint site is has native Linux support so it
> doesn't appear there are any major driver availability issues. The one
> problem I've read about that concerns me is it may conflict with
> existing on-board Marvell eSATA controllers which this machine has.
> 
>    If this is a bad type of controller for a sinple RAID1 addition
> please feel free to point me at an alternative. Amazon or NewEgg is
> preferred.

I got mine from NewEgg, FWIW.

HTH,

Phil