From: "Joël Bourquard" <numlock@freesurf.ch>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
Subject: Re: What SATA controller for software raid and/or lvm?
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:51:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074462662.8813.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040118212933.GB3763@hvs.envisage.co.za>
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:29, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:54:44PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote:
> > Hi, I want to setup a software raid and lvm configuration with 2-4TB raw
> > disk space. I wonder if you can give me some suggestions on what kind of
> > sata controllers are friendly to my purpose? :)
>
> Those supported properly in the kernel :)
>
> At present I'm using the onboard Via & Promise (20378) for SATA + (evms)
> software RAID, but there are others that have different views on which
> controller(s) to use.
>
Unfortunately an onboard SATA RAID controller will not be enough for
2-4TB.
I'm looking to build the exact same thing (at least 2TB) using 256GB
SATA disks.
If money is no issue, the 8- or 12-port 3ware SATA RAID controllers have
excellent linux support.
For software RAID, I think it's overkill.. why buy a RAID coprocessor
when you don't actually use it ?
I think I'll go with two Highpoint 1820 (8-port) PCI-X controllers and
see how it works..
Linux support wasn't their strong point in the past, but it seems they
released an "open-source" kernel module on 2nd January, 2004.
Maybe a RAID guru can have a look at it, and see if it's a marketing
joke or not ?
Anyway, for the price I think I'll take the risk and order two of them
next week.
Regards,
Joël
> Hendrik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-18 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-18 20:54 What SATA controller for software raid and/or lvm? Ming Zhang
2004-01-18 21:29 ` Hendrik Visage
2004-01-18 21:51 ` Joël Bourquard [this message]
2004-01-18 22:29 ` Ming Zhang
2004-01-18 23:50 ` Joël Bourquard
2004-01-19 19:19 ` Mark Hahn
2004-01-19 19:50 ` Joël Bourquard
2004-01-19 23:16 ` Mark Hahn
2004-01-18 22:26 ` Ming Zhang
2004-01-18 23:02 ` Hendrik Visage
2004-01-19 0:22 ` Ming Zhang
2004-01-19 19:10 ` Mark Hahn
2004-01-19 19:27 ` Hendrik Visage
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