Martin Hicks wrote:
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.
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My mistake. The card I was looking at was the Adaptec 1420, which is in
fact a "host" RAID controller (is nothing what it seems any more?). I do
remember paying about $300 last year for a 2420, which is definitely
hardware RAID.