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Jerry Gardner
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Take a look at the Netcell SR5103. It's a true hardware RAID controller that supports 5 SATA drives in RAID 0, 1, XL, and JBOD. Costs about $250.
To the OS this board looks like a single IDE drive, so no special RAID drivers are needed.
http://www.netcell.com/_personal/products.html |
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Limit
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| schwicky wrote: | | Limit wrote: |
2)SATA/SATA 2 disks |
If you're having troubles with 50-70 smb connections you should really think about using more than just 2 disks because your disks will spend more time to position the read and write heads than transfering data. Moreover if all the conections are concurrent. |
Ow, sorry, it's better say SATA/SATA II disks. Of course i'm going to use 5-7 disks =) |
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Limit
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi all!
I change my moherboard, and it has a PCI-E now. And now i'm looking a real hardware-RAID controller (PCI-E, SATA, 6 or 8 disks, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 1+0 (10)). I find "Promise Technology SuperTrak EX8350 8-Port SATA PCI-E RAID Controller" but main problem that it's a PROMISE =) and i'm not sure that it is a real hardware controller.
Using 2.6.10 kernel.
And what about PCI-E devices in linux? How does it works (especially i/o controllers).
Can somebody help me? |
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Limit
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:53 am Post subject: |
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I'm find what i want. It is Areca ARC-1220 (8x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x 128MB. And alos i'm find some answers for the main theme of this topic: what is a real hardware raid controller?
http://www.clintoneast.com/articles/linux-sata-raid.php
I'll post there my impression about this card soon.[/url] |
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Spockmeat
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting, I just saw two other reviews giving the Areca cards very good reviews.
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20051031/index.html
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/1
Do post how well you like the card. I'm somewhat shopping around for a real hardware raid card myself (currently running 2 drives in software with windows and linux on them... pain in the butt to set up and has a higer cpu usage than I'd like). |
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