On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:31 -0400, Milan Budimirovic wrote: > 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. > > > > mh > > > > > 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. I was over at everbest computing and did see a Promise-Promise FastTrak Tx4310 4 Port RAID SATA2 controller for $180 http://www.everbest.on.ca/ver2/showProduct.php?id=1747 Looking at manufacture home page they have drivers for suse & redhat so it should work under linux but does anyone who knows if that's real hardware raid or just another fakeraid ? I'm currently running linux sw raid but considering go hardware for my next system. As for the original question, I seen lots of motherboard that have "on board raid" but it seems like they are all of the fake raid model so you're better off running linux sw raid. > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux