On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:08:31PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >hello. > >we are planning to set up a serial-ATA based fileserver (>1 Terabyte). >the host will be dedicated solely to serving files (via samba and nfs >(and probably appletalk), so i was thinking about a software-raid solution. > >are there any cards you would recommend ? >i was thinking about highpoint rocketraid-1820a (i think there are only >proprietary drivers available, but it has 8 SATA-channels) or promise >fasttrack s150-sx4 (only 4 SATA-channels) >anything else ? (3ware and adaptec cards are most likely better (? in >terms of what ?) but i guess they have their prize for getting true >hardware-raid which i don't really need).
at under $30, the addonics ADSA2 [1] is inexpensive. as long as you use the drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c at or newer than "0.54" (~Jun 16 01:18) which is when it became reliable for me. I typically get the high side of 41 to 52 Mb/sec and I've heard of a stripped software raid getting 100 Mb/sec. that one has two channels, other models have more, how many pci slots do you have? Might be worthwhile to price out FlashDisk [2] too. // George [1] http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/sata_controller.asp [2] http://www.winsys.com/products/flata.php -- George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 5415 2738 61CF 6AE1 E9A7 9EF0 0186 503B 9831 1631 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
