RAID card for SATA disks.

Discussion:

Brian Schau

2007-04-13 21:49:00 UTC

Hello,

I am looking for recommendations for a raid card for SATA disks.

Anyone who knows a good one which is compatible with TSL-3.0.5?

/brian

Morten Nilsen

2007-04-14 08:49:53 UTC

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Post by Brian Schau
Anyone who knows a good one which is compatible with TSL-3.0.5?

Any controller that is compatible with kernel 2.6.19

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Brian Schau

2007-04-14 14:31:32 UTC

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Post by Brian Schau
Hello,
I'm using the 9500S-4LP of 3ware. Works fine and the support from 3ware in
case of disk failure and recovery is excellent ...
This is a PCI board. I have no experience with the PCI-X boards but on
Cebit they demonstrated the 3ware PCI-X board with Raid6 and things were
running nice.
Regards,
Jos Scheelen
Regards,
Jos

Post by Brian Schau
Hello,
I am looking for recommendations for a raid card for SATA disks.
Anyone who knows a good one which is compatible with TSL-3.0.5?
/brian
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Oystein Viggen

2007-04-14 23:13:55 UTC

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Post by Brian Schau
I'm using the 9500S-4LP of 3ware. Works fine and the support from 3ware in
case of disk failure and recovery is excellent ...
This is a PCI board. I have no experience with the PCI-X boards but on
Cebit they demonstrated the 3ware PCI-X board with Raid6 and things were
running nice.

I have run 3ware PCI Express boards on Linux with excellent performance and
no problems. I think the board was called 9550, but I'm not at work at the
moment, so can't check.

The 3ware cards tend to cost USD 3-400 and up, but for this you get a real
hardware raid controller, not some "enough bios support to boot from, and
then the Windows driver handles the raid" piece of crap.

(We've also used Adaptec controllers in a few installations, but we're
moving away from those because of some problems with the controller silently
corrupting data under heavy load. The 3ware cards give better performance
than the Adaptec cards we've been using, too).

Øystein

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Matthias Šubik

2007-04-15 11:39:36 UTC

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I'm using a areca raid-6 card, as well as an icp vortex card, also an
hp branded vortex card using the cciss driver, all working without a
problem, the cciss driver made a big problem with viper, since viper
wasn't used to see lvm volumes with an exclamation mark in their name.

all work well, but I haven't got around to test the 3.0.5 installer,
but they work well with the trustix kernels.

oh and a word to the mentioned 3-ware cards: I might be the only
person that handed back an 3ware controller that fried disks on
connect (broken firmware). All other 3ware controllers (about 75% of
raid cards I installed) work perfectly.

ps: some of the areca raid cards might only work in latest kernels, b/
c there is development going on on their side.

just my two cents.

m