On Nov 17, 2007 2:01 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007/11/16 21:16, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > 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? > > Try ebay for a used MegaRAID SATA 150-4 or Areca ARC-1x10... > new they're a bit more expensive than the cheap 3ware, but not > too bad. > > If you don't need a lot of disk space, it will be easier to find > a used supported SCSI RAID controller, and this will probably cost > less. > > Just out of curiousity why do you like those cards better than 3ware? I use 3ware in all of my hardware raid servers and I have no problems with it. I'm using 3ware 9550SX Sata RAID and it does do SMART checking and what not. 3ware is my preferred brand of RAID controllers.
- Jake
