From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph =?iso-8859-1?q?Pa=DFgang?= Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:03:41 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200403312003.41762.ralph@debianbase.de> References: <008f01c41737$8b57be40$6405a8c0@a30> <002501c4173f$3cfda1d0$6405a8c0@a30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Am Mittwoch, 31. M=E4rz 2004 18:58 schrieben Sie: > writes: > > Seems like 3ware is the card of choice. I'll probably pick one up = at > > cdw, unless anyone knows where I can get them on the cheap. > > > > Speaking of cheap, anyone ever have any luck with the Highpoint > > RocketRaid cards on Sarge? > > I don't use debian, but my rocketraid is doing well with recent kerne= ls. > > > They're roughly 80% the price of 3ware (maybe you get what you pay > > for) > > 80%? You must mean 20%. The Highpoint cards are software raid cards= , > meaning that they are just regular ATA cards with a "RAID" label > slapped on the box. If would not use the "raid" feature of the Highpoint cards, because it = is only=20 software raid and not so performant as a hardware raid. If you don't ne= ed a=20 high-end system, then you can make a software raid with linux standard = tools=20 like: mdadm. If you need performance, then you should think about a scs= i raid=20 setup and a good adapter, maybe adaptec or 3ware or something like that= =2E If software raid, then I would prefer a linux software raid (with mdadm= for=20 example) and would not use not good supported third-party software raid= =20 "drivers". For mdadm you will find more support and you can migrate the= disks=20 in another linux box and it will read the raid... With the Highpoint ra= id=20 function you are forced to continue using the highpoint card. And just for your information, you don't have to look after a card that= is=20 specially supported by Debian. Debian uses a normal linux kernel (+ som= e=20 patches, but nothing revolutionary) so it can handle each raid adapter = that=20 is supported by the linux kernel... It's the same for SuSE and RedHat,=20 because they support each adapter supported by the standard linux kerne= l plus=20 maybe some patched-in drivers). But even when the adapter is not suppor= ted in=20 the vanilla kernel you can patch a kernel-source by yourself... But it = is=20 always a good decision to only use hardware that is supported in a stoc= k=20 kernel. So better look after general linux support. I think there is not one pi= ece of=20 hardware that is declared as: "ready for debian sarge" :)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html