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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: numlock@freesurf.ch
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What SATA controller for software raid and/or lvm?
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:29:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074464950.2532.99.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074462662.8813.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:51, Joël Bourquard wrote:
> 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.
> 
yes, so that is why i want to buy a separate sata controller.


> 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.
money is always an issue. :)


> 
> 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.
yes, that price sounds great. hope to get u comments on that card soon.
thanks a lot.

> 
> Regards,
> Joël
> 
> 
> > Hendrik
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-18 22:29 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
2004-01-18 22:29     ` Ming Zhang [this message]
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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