On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:32 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 > media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA > controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned > when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have > both PCIe and PCI slots available. I do not need high performance as > the RAID will just contain media files for access in my home. I would > prefer a controller supported by normal kernel drivers. My preference > is to keep costs down (3 x 1 TB drives are costly enough :). > > Any recommendations?
Well since you're not concerned about RAID or performance... I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
