Rev. Jeffrey Paul said: > > I'd done some quick searches for "3ware" on ebay, having heard good things > about their ide-raid cards. The 7xxx series are too expensive for the > project I'm working on at the moment. It's either an older card, or > software RAID1 (and, with all due respect, I don't want to use linux > software raid in -this sort- of production environment). > > Are the 6xxx series really that bad? I don't care about 'nearly' > unsupported, just as long as it works. My budget for this whole project > is likely less than $500. > > We're currently looking at raid1 across two 80-120GB disks for a samba > file server in an office that does a lot of graphic design. For that type of usage, the 6xxx series will work out just fine. There's nothing wrong with them in RAID 1, 0 or 10. Just their RAID 5 performance is a bit lacking. Looks like you can find them for about $60 these days so they're a good deal. Although you can find a 72xx card for about $15-20 more as well. -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
