On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:15:22PM -0500, System Administrator wrote: > On 16 Nov 2007 at 16:36, Pawel Veselov wrote: > > (just trying to find a cheap SATA hardware raid card...) > > Executive summary: Find another card or use soft-raid. > > The long answer: > > The redundancy provided by a RAID set is merely a stop-gap measure -- > it allows to avoid a hard crash and perform the necessary maintenance > on your terms (i.e. when it is more convenient). It is not a panacea > against disk failure, which almost inevitably will eventually occur > given heavy enough usage and/or harsh environmental conditions. > Therefore, the health monitoring and any live maintenace capabilities > provided by the card are probably its most important features.
[snip problems with the 3ware card] Then what card would be suggested that will provide the necessary support (as outlined) for SATA drives? Assuming that there will be a price range, what would that range look like? Doug.
