[ale] RAID card for home use?

[DJ-Pfulio]

LSI bought 3Ware about 5 yrs ago.
There are quality, linux supported cards from SuperMicro too for
$120-ish.  The ZFS folks love these:
* Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Add-on Card, 8-Channel SAS/SATA Adapter

$111 on Amazon today - add a $10 SAS-to-SATA conversion cable if you
want to use cheap drives.

Throughput is great, I hear from highly reputable sources.  My next NAS
build will get one of these cards.

On 09/28/2015 07:43 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:14:06AM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
>> Valid point... I guess adding one more drive for RAID5 won't break the bank.
>> haha!  
>>
>> LSI Logic 9270-8i....
>> - Amazon: $565
>> - eBay: $160
> 
> I can't honestly speak for the LSI cards' robustness and Linux support, 
> but another option is to go with a 3Ware card.  Their Linux support is 
> top-notch.
> 
> For example, you can get a new 3Ware 9650SE-12ML for $70 on ebay, and 
> that includes one breakout cable. Their newer 9690 and 9750 cards are 
> better, especially if you're going full RAID6, but are more expensive.
> 
> But if you're not going RAID5/6, using a fancy controller will buy you 
> better manageability (and in the case of RAID1 you'll always be able to 
> boot), at best the performance will be the same vs the onboard 
> controller.
> 
> (I've been using 3Ware cards for about 15 years now; a 9650SE-16ML is 
>  currently powering the system I'm sending this from.  I've not had a 
>  single controller-related failure with these things))
> 
>  - Solomon
> 
> 
> 
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