> 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. While not linux-specific, the rewies on storeagereview.com are quite informative, have a look at http://storagereview.com/articles/200111/20011119Escalade7450_1.html for a comparism of the newest 3ware controllers vs. Adaptec 2400A. http://storagereview.com/articles/200110/20011031SX6000_1.html for Promise SX6000 vs Adaptec vs. previous generation of 3ware cards. the 3ware controllers have very good linux support (drivers included in both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels), management/diagnostic tools available as linux binaries with same functionality as windows. Promise Supertrak also has linux drivers available but seems to be trickier to get to run; I've recently seen a couple of error/problem reports for recent kernels on the kernel mailing list. On the plus side: alan cox has one of these cards so if there's trouble at least there's a VERY knowledgeable person to ask :-) I'm running a couple of 3ware cards under linux myself + one SX600 under windows. since I haven't got the adaptec hard, I haven't looked at linux support for this card, sorry. Onle-line resume for card performance in raid5 mode: 3ware absolutely blows the other cards away when it comes to streming write performance, for everything else it's a pretty close tie with the adaptec often slightly faster. promise comes in a bit slower, esp. under server-type loads (multiple concurrent accesses). Hope this helps, Martin - 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
