From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Klauer Subject: Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation. Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20160317095252.GA3822@EIS> References: <5643FD4A.4070709@gmail.com> <20151112122908.0406d170@natsu> <56449EE5.3010002@gmail.com> <20151112151105.GA32385@EIS> <56E9E056.7000204@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56E9E056.7000204@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ram Ramesh Cc: Roman Mamedov , Linux Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:38:14PM -0500, Ram Ramesh wrote: > If you don't mind, could you share with me the standalone card that you > use? I think this is the same I use: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI-E-Express-SATA3-SATA3-0-6Gb-s-eSATA-SATA-III-Card-ASMEDIA1061-/231378681315 It has two ports, and you can choose between internal and external via 4 jumpers per port. You also find this Asmedia chipset on a lot of Asus/Asrock mainboards that have two additional SATA ports. > BTW, have you stressed your card through a rebuild/checkarray? I run checkarray every day (each day a different part of disk so entire disk is covered in a week or so) with no issue. I also mirror my single SSD disk to the HDD RAID once a week. I can run a mkfs.ext4 -c -c on a LVM partition at a later time, but so far no issues whatsoever. Regards Andreas Klauer