From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Thurlbeck Subject: Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:08:17 +0100 Message-ID: <442CE371.90900@stams.strath.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mark Hahn wrote: >>>I have 4x500GB Maxtor SATA drives and I want to attach >>>these to a 4-port SATA PCI card and RAID5 them using "md" >>> >>>Could anybody recommend a card that will have out of >>>box support on a Fedora system ? > > > which FC release? I believe FC4 would have decent support for > promise tx4's (there are at least two - the most recent might > not work OOB). sil 3114's ought to work as well. > Hi Currently FC4, but I could update to FC5 on these machines if necessary. I should add that performance is not really an issue - it's mostly a read-only data store. I don't really want to fork out 250 UKPounds per SATA card (i.e. 3ware 8506) since I don't need the capabilities (hardware RAID) nor the performance (but I suppose if I'm forking out 750 UKP for disks what's another 250?) Mike Hardy recommended the Addonics ADST114 (sil 3114) which has an entry on this page: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html A little bit outdated though. (Amazing how many "RAID" cards are "fakeraid") Thanks for the help! Ian > >>3ware. Period. If you're going to use md, get the 8506-4 series rather >>than either of the 9xxx series cards. > > > before the 9550, I never found attractive in price/performance: > expensive as hell and a lot slower than MD. but the 9550 is really > quite impressive... > > regards, mark hahn > > - > 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 -- Ian Thurlbeck http://www.stams.strath.ac.uk/ Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, UK, G1 1XH Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3667 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2079