[TriLUG] raid cards

[Jason Tower]

if you want hardware raid go with 3ware cards, they're excellent.  i 
have two of them running in a storage server running centos41:

[jason at samsclub ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             1.9T  1.2T  625G  66% /share1
/dev/sdc1             1.4T  838G  468G  65% /share2

jason


Wing D Lizard wrote:
> I want to add a raid-1 to a server ( supermicro x5dal).  Since the
> motherboard doesn't support hw raid, I'm looking at pci sata
> cards.
> 
> Intrex has a couple:
> 
>   CON-SATAR - sil3112a chipset
>   CON-TX2300 - promice fastrack tx2300 ( SATA II??)
> 
> has anybody tried either of these?  Any problems?
> 
> Can you boot from a sata drive with these cards?
> 
> Is there any reason to stay away from fc3/4?  CentOS?
> 
> The server is a LAMP server, supporting an accounting app
> (ARIA), and a few odds and ends  ( phplive, etc).
> 
> brett
> 
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