[ale] RAID Controllers

[Matt Rideout]

Matty wrote, On 08/08/2009 06:47 PM:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Temple<cjtemple at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have an ASUS P5N32-E SLI board but it will only support 2 drives when
>> doing a RAID 0 and I want to set my (3) 1TB drives to RAID 0. So does anyone
>> have any suggestions for a RAID controller that will support up to 4 drives?
>> It would be nice if they did 300 instead of just 150.
>>     
>
> The 3ware controllers support anywhere from 2 - 24 ports per
> controller. They have awesome Linux support, and you can find some
> bargains on eBay (you can find brand new controllers for 50% - 75% off
> list price).
>
> Hope that helps,
> - Ryan
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If you want hardware RAID, 3Ware is good, but I'm partial to software 
RAID in any situation where you don't either have the hardware under a 
solid support contract, or keep a spare RAID controller on site. With a 
software RAID, if the SATA controller fails, you can just get another 
SATA controller, and not have to worry about tracking down a compatible 
hardware RAID card.