Hello, I recently had an unpleasant experience with a hdd failure in a software raid5 array. After at least 10 hours of trying everything I could think of, I finally managed to get my data off the array, thanks to info from posts on this mailing list. (thanks guys!) However, I didn't really enjoy having to recreate the array, making absolutely sure to use all the exact same parameters so as not to lose data. I am looking for something to make this process more pleasant next time. I was wondering if the people on this list could recommend a pci SATA raid5 card that handles hdd failures elegantly. I'm not concerned with speed that much. I want the maximum amount of reliability (read: nicest linux drivers), and extremely easy recovery from failure. I've been looking at the highpoint and adaptec 8port SATA cards. The adaptec card costs twice as much. Is it worth it? Is there some other card I haven't found that works better under linux than either one? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Eric P.S. Please cc me your replies, as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks again. - 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
