Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
Dear All I have 4x500GB Maxtor SATA drives and I want to attach these to a 4-port SATA PCI card and RAID5 them using "md" Could anybody recommend a card that will have out of box support on a Fedora system ?
I have had a lot of success with Promise TX4 cards, with the caveat that more than two controllers can't be in the same box (or couldn't as of a few months ago - this may have been fixed). They're fairly cheap and run on a 66Mhz PCI bus, if you've got one, whereas most of the other cheap cards are only regular 33Mhz. Mine (with 4x250G 7200rpm drives) can sustain about 200MB/sec if configured in a RAID0.
I haven't seen a better card from a price/performance perspective if you're going to use md.
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