All,
I'm currently planning to put together a MythTV Personal Video Recorder (PVR) box using an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ box that I have at home.
I would like to have enough HD space so that I can store more than just a few hours of TV shows (so that when we go on vacation, we won't miss anything). I've been thinking of putting in an SATA RAID 5. The motherboard I have doesn't support SATA, so I was thinking of buying a Promise RAID 5 SATA controller.
1) Are the Promise RAID 5 SATA controller's well supported under Redhat?
2) Has anybody had good/bad experiences with them or any other brand?
I'm planning on putting 4 - 200Gb SATA drives on it, and want something that's going to have decent performance.
Thanks!
Ben
I'm planning to do this too using my Athlon 2400+ with 4x 120gb ata drives in raid 5.
The Athlon box will run as a workstation/server/mythtv backend & the mythtv front end on a box in the lounge dual boot with xp for games. The 2 will connect via wireless.
The backend will run software raid 5 on the array (seperate from the OS raid 1 (6 hdd's in all)). The controller I have for the raid 5 is an ITE 8212 - cheap! (£20). There is no driver for it in most kernels so i'll have to build the driver myself but I have used the card very sucessfully in previous configs.
From the research i have done into controllers, the 3ware cards are by far the best & have the best support in the Linux kernel but are also the most expensive! Promise seem to be next in line in terms of drivers but I think you need to be a bit carefull that you get one that has a driver in the kernel.
Adaptec also do sata raid controllers but i'm not sure which have drivers in the kernel(s).
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/prodtechindex.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSerial+ATA
HTH
-- Mark Farmer Linux System Administrator
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