[ale] To IDE RAID or not to RAID...

[Charles Marcus]

Actually, I would *strongly* recommend the new 7xxxx series boards...

they are much faster, and...

well, read all about it...

www.3ware.com/support/releasememo.shtml

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:52 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] To IDE RAID or not to RAID...
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:22:05AM -0500, Eric Webb wrote:
> > I'm currently looking at either Adaptec's 2400A 
> (four-channel, RAID5-capable) 
> > or Promise's SX6000 (six-channel, RAID5).  Has anyone ever 
> used these cards 
> > under linux?  They're listed in the Linux Hardware FAQ as 
> being supported, 
> > but there's not a lot of detail on what facilities of these 
> boards are 
> > supported.
> 
> I've never used either.  However, I have used the 3Ware IDE 
> RAID baords,
> and they're fast and VERY well supported.   I've always been wary of
> Adaptec's RAID boards (poor Linux track record in the past, 
> but getting 
> much better now) and Promise in particular has been terrible.
> 
> I can't seem to find source to the Adaptec 2400A driver.  It maynot
> exist.  (And NEVER used binary-only drivers for something so critical)
> 
> The Promise card uses the I2O driver, which is good.  It is supposedly
> flaky on some boards even as of the 2.4.17 kernel release.
> 
> So -- My advice is to go with a 3Ware 6xxx series card; you 
> can get ones
> that handle up to eight drives in RAID0/1/3/5 and various combinations
> thereof.   They work out of the box, the driver is open source, in the
> kernel, and extremely well suppored under Linux by 3Ware themselves.
> 
> > Also, note that I am trying to avoid software-based raid 
> configurations (ie, 
> > letting the kernel do it).
> 
> Beter to let the kernel do it than let the IDE driver do it (which is
> what most IDE "raid" cards do..)
> 
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