well this will work on systems that have pci-express or pci slots for systems that don´t have slots like arm systems, i don´t know if this could work... maybe in some future we will have arm devices running NAS solutions, and a more secure system is nice... 2012/8/1 Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 8/1/2012 7:02 AM, matt wrote: >> Is silent data corruption like this simply to be expected when using cheap >> commodity hardware? > > When you pay less than 1/4th the price of one drive for the controller > card directing all your drives, is it really necessary to ask this question? > > Two large pizzas cost more than a Syba/Rosewill/Koutech/etc SATA card. > The pizza is consumed in one night, maybe some for breakfast. Would you > trust a day worth of pizza with your RAID? With your data? > > One tank of gas for the average car today costs $50, the same as two of > these SATA cards. The gas is gone in a week or two. You want the cards > to run for 2-4 years. > > Your drives cost anywhere from $400-$1000, yet your controller maybe > $50. Do I really need to say any more? Spend $150-250 on a decent > SAS/SATA controller such as an LSI or Adaptec and you won't have to > worry about this kind of thing. > > -- > Stan > > -- > 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 -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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
