[olug] Linux friendly SATA RAID controller

[Dan Linder]

My current home workstation has three SATA drives using the Linux "MD" 
RAID5 drivers.  It works quite well, but when I start doing file IO, the 
system gets sluggish because of the overhead of the RAID5 driver.

I'm thinking of re-installing and using a true hardware RAID controller 
(I'm not interested in the quasi RAID controllers that some cards have 
that still require a software driver).  I have heard people recommend 
3Ware, but are there any others that you've had good luck with?

Dan

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