Roberto C. Sanchez said: > Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez said: >>> >>> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting >>> up >>> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have >>> experience >>> with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that >>> experience). Personally, I am just looking to find out what cards >>> people >>> are >>> using and how happy/unhappy they are with said cards. >> >> I've got 2 of these cards in my server at home. They've been working great >> for about 6 months now. >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124001 > > Excellent, I was planning on buying from newegg, so thanks for the specific > product reference. What driver does it use? Are you also using the onboard > IDE controllers in conjunction? How many total drives are connected to all > your controllers? > > -Roberto
Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array.... I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards. I got my grubby little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for myself and donated the rest to some friends. I used 2 drives with the on-board IDE controller to host the OS (Sarge) and the created a ~320GB spanned drive using LVM on the other 8 drives. Of the 2 drives on the onboard IDE controller, one of them has everything on it except the /home partition. I chose to put /home on the second 40GB drive so that if I wanted to reinstall for any reason I would have a safe haven to store my data. Granted this probably isn't an ideal setup but it was inexpensive and has been very reliable for the past 6 months. I've had no hardware related issues whatsoever. -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
