From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Stevens Subject: Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation. Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:41:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20160318154152.10835s56gu5tsab4@webmail.uniserve.com> References: <5643FD4A.4070709@gmail.com> <20151112122908.0406d170@natsu> <56449EE5.3010002@gmail.com> <20151112151105.GA32385@EIS> <56E9E056.7000204@gmail.com> <20160317095252.GA3822@EIS> <56EB87E3.6060504@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56EB87E3.6060504@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ram Ramesh Cc: Andreas Klauer , Roman Mamedov , Linux Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Quoting Ram Ramesh : > On 03/17/2016 04:52 AM, Andreas Klauer wrote: >> 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 > Thanks. > > I saw similar one on Amazon too: > http://www.amazon.com/Express-Adapter-Converter-ASMEDIA-ASM1061/dp/B008BZAVVE > > I am getting asrock extreme6 and that will be enough for the next > 6months (eventually I want to have a total of 12). Before that time, > I will probably buy the card you have given unless I get nervous > about ebay vendor and choose amazon version. > > Regards > Rameshn Hi Ramesh, Why are you considering only hardware RAID? Software RAID is basically free and you needn't be concerned about board manufacturers going out of business or changing the board BIOS and so on. Dave > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." -- John Dewey