On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:35:14PM -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Milan Budimirovic wrote: > > > > > Unless you're really and truly strapped for cash, I would recommend > > getting a hardware SATA RAID controller. You can get a 4-channel Adaptec > > for about $125, I believe. > > > For that price I suspect that card is not hardware raid, but > HostRaid. AKA proprietary software RAID. > > There are advantages to Linux software RAID. It is less expensive. The RAID > is not tied to a specific hardware card and can be mounted in any > system with a SATA controller. Only many systems there will be little > difference in performance. I agree with Stephen. You're not getting a real raid card for $125. Use the Linux software raid. mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE