[Cialug] Sata Controller

[dave at 58ghz.net]

I'm not against software raid. I'm just frustrated at
the moment.  I had bunch of ide drives out of a bad
batch from Maxtor, and the last one finally failed.

I'm rebuilding a development workstation, or buying a
new one and I just wanted to build something more
reliable this time. I wanted to do  scsi, cause
that's what I know.
However, hindsight tells me to just save the scsi for
the servers and make the  move to sata on workstation
now.

I'm looking at the 3ware 8506 sata controller. 

If I do software raid, I'll need a new Amd x2
motherboard with a plain sata controller that RHEL
supports. Maybe I can get a barebones box somewhere.
Any ideas on that?

I need to make a decision and order some hardware
tonight or tommorrow.

:) Dave

------- Original Message -------
>From    : David Champion[mailto:dchampion at visionary.com]
Sent    : 6/11/2007 3:16:37 PM
To      : cialug at cialug.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: Re: [Cialug] Sata Controller

 Depending on what your goals and budget are, you
might be better off
just using an on-board sata controller and software raid.

There are probably several resources out there if you
google for it, but
the basics are that under light to medium loads, the
linux software raid
 performs nearly as good as a hardware raid controller.

If you're doing heavy load, or need advanced raid
functions, then by all
means, go for the hardware controller. For hd
disaster recovery, you
can't beat a nice raid controller.

I'm running a number of linux boxes with software
raid, and just
mirroring 2 drives, it has worked flawlessly, and
I've been happy with
the performance. YMMV.

-dc

dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
> I'm looking for a Sata raid controller that will run
> out-of-box, without a proprietary driver on RHEL 3.
> Something priced under  $200 would be great. Any
> recommendations?  I'm also looking for a pair of new
> 70+ gb sata drives (not Maxtor) something that will
> run 24x7 for at least 2 years under a light load.
> Again, any recommendations?
> 
> :) Dave
> 
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