I would just like to second a couple things; First, a local expert (who is not subscribed to this list) also recommended the 3ware controllers. I have not personally tested it but I know he builds quite a number of systems in his job and he highly recommends them. Personally I just purchased an Abit IC7-G Motherboard which has 4 SATA connectors built in. Second, even though you said price was more important than performance I would still go with SATA. For a marginal price difference you will get nearly double the performance. I have not had the opportunity to test the performance difference between a PATA RAID and a SATA RAID but I can tell you that, on my desktop, a single SATA drive has twice the performance (according to hdparm). This is far from a true test but it does give you some indication of the potential. Regards, -- John Lange On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:08, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 9 May 2004 robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >One other possibility is to use three two-channel controllers (two disks on > >each one). Does anyone know if this is feasible? > > It'll work, but you may have various problems. The HighPoint controller > BIOS doesn't officially support more than one or two controllers per > system. However, you can put more in there... you just won't be able to > configure any raid settings. > > >Finally, does anyone know of any other 4-channel (or 6-channel) ATA > >controllers that would be worth my checking out? > > 3ware. They aren't exactly cheap, but they more than make up for it in > performance, support, and reliability. > > --Ricky > > PS: SATA is not that much more expensive. The savings in cabling headaches > is well worth the added cost. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
