So on the whole we have glowing reviews all round.. Yippe! I can get it and switch out my 2 port for a 4 port; add 2 more drives.. and wait patiently for raid5~6 conversion to get reliable so I can sleep easy about >1TB drives in my array! Cheers guys. ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.' ----------------------- --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Adaptec 1430SA > To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009, 12:03 AM > I use this controller and I know of > another mate at the office who does. > > It works well as a simple SATA controller for four drives > (+1 on the mobo). > It is able to drive all disks at full speed and so far I > did not have any > issues with it. I am on fedora 11. > > My mobo is unable to handle five disks without hitting some > internal > bottlenecks. > > cheers > > Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with Adaptec > controllers? Namely > > > > http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sataii/AAR-1430SA/ > > > > I want to increase my machines drive capacity and > reply the existing 2 port pci-e with this bad boy. > > > > Also; any ideas of a good price? Have seen for ~�70 > + p&p > > > > ----------------------- > > N: Jon Hardcastle > > E: Jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring > worries of its own.' > > -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > -- > 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
