Dan Langille wrote:
On 16 Jun 2006 at 21:52, Milan Budimirovic wrote:
Anyway, I went for the Adaptec 2420S and had no trouble getting it
working under Ubuntu Server 6.06. It boots directly off the RAID array
too. :)
This is pretty cool. The controller card and the 4x160G SATA drives came
out to about $800. That's very reasonable for hardware RAID 10.
I am in the process of setting up a system with similar storage
requirements. Where did you purchase? How much were the individual
components?
I bought the server at Computer Supply House on O'Connor St. The
MegaRAID 150-4 and the Adaptec 2420s are in the $300-$400 range. A 160G
SATAII drive is about $100 I believe.
Both cards use their manufacturer's SCSI RAID drivers. The Adaptec
aacraid driver is built into the Ububtu installer program, making life
very easy for the person installing the system.
I've been considering the 3Ware products:
probably the 9550SX-4LP but the 9550SX-8LP looks nice too:
http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9000.asp
3ware products have a reputation for being a bit less stable than some
of the others. Also factor in that they are a much smaller vendor than
LSI logic or Adaptec. If they go out of business you may have trouble
finding a replacement card that can read your existing data.
They also don't have a distributor in Canada, so their products need to
be purchased directly from their US distributor, and good luck getting
them to honour any warranty if the need arises.
and the MegaRAID SATA 300-8XLP:
http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid_sata/megaraid_sata_300_8xlp.
html
LSI logic also no longer has a distributor in Canada. As well, the
4-disk MegaRAID controller does not support SATA II. That said, I
generally like their disk controllers more than Adaptec's. This would be
a good choice, if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks for it to arrive.
All three cards are PCI-X and SATAII... that's the main thing for me.
I have not attempted to source these cards locally.