On 02/08/12 10:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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. On a related note, is there a specific model card you would suggest that fits the following: a) 4 or 8 ports b) PCI (for older systems) c) affordable (note, not cheap, but not expensive) d) does not need to support RAID since we will use software raid anyway I am always unsure, and see very cheap SATA cards (around $50) and worry as you suggest, and very expensive (around $1000), and feel that is a waste of money for what should be a fairly simple card. Also, would you use on board controller, or prefer to always use an external controller? Or is it worthwhile using a combination (in case of controller failure)? Thanks for your opinions. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- 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
