Christopher Smith wrote:
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
I've been running 3 together in one box for about 18 months, and four in another for a year now...
the on board BIOS will only pickup 8 drives, but they work just fine under Linux and recognise all
connected drives.
I have 11 drives in one box (on promise.. 2 on the on-board VIA and 1 on PATA) and 15 drives in
another (all across 4 promise cards).. all on SATA150-TX4 cards..
Performance sucks.. but then when you put 15 drives on a single PCI 33Mhz bus what do you expect ?
Great for streaming media though.. (and cheap, and very reliable). The only media errors I get are
on the VIA controller. The promise controllers have not had a single media error since they were
installed.
Brad
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