You may also want to consider the 3Ware 7450 or 7850 controllers. They have substantially better performance under RAID 5 than either the Adaptec or the Promise controllers. You can find some marketing babble and performance information here: http://www.3ware.com/news/7450_7850.pdf Cheers, C > Hi, > I want to create an IDE-Raid with 4-6 drives using Raid 5. Therefor i > want to buy a HW-Raidcontroller. The Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A EFIGS and > the Promise SuperTrak SX6000 IDE Should fit my whishes. > The only problem I have is that I couldn't find any benchmarks using > Linux. Maybe some of you tested one of this Controllers and can tell me > what he's thinking about the controller. Especially benchmarks would > interest me. > Thanks in advance, > Karsten > - > 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 > -- Chris Mauritz ritz@mordor.net - 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