From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Ramesh Subject: Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation. Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:42:23 -0500 Message-ID: <56ED9D8F.7090303@gmail.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> <20160318154152.10835s56gu5tsab4@webmail.uniserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160318154152.10835s56gu5tsab4@webmail.uniserve.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Stevens Cc: Andreas Klauer , Roman Mamedov , Linux Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 03/18/2016 05:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > 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 >> > > > Dave, Not sure what you mean. I am only talking about mdadm. I just needed extra sata ports to hook up more drives. None of my conversation is about hardware raid. I have never used or wanted to have hardware raid. Ramesh