[olug] SATA RAID

[Phil Brutsche]

x3 on the 3ware cards, but make sure you get the 9550SX series.

That series supports SATA II features like NCQ, have a reasonable amount
of memory (ie 128MB+) for write caching and an optional BBU for safe
write caching.  The older cards (ie the 8500 series) aren't nearly as
nice for hardware RAID5.

BTW I still recommend the LSI Logic SATA RAID card - it uses the same
driver and management utilities as their SCSI RAID cards, which is a
bonus for me since I can use the same familiar tools that I have on my
SCSI-based servers ;)

Trent Melcher wrote:
> I have used 3ware cards also without problems....most of the servers I
> buy from www.nixsys.com   come with the 3ware RAID cards...they work
> quite well in the Linuxs Servers they build.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us