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Need Sata Hardware Raid recommendations

ToddAndMargo

2007-09-01, 1:19 am

Hi All,

I am not having too much luck with LSI's SATA Megaraid boards.
(3.5 times slower under CentOS 5 than 4.x)

Anyone have a favorite hardware SATA RAID controller, other than
LSI? Any that are VERY RHEL5/CentOS5 friendly with built in drivers?

I have both PCI-X and PCI-e slots available.

Many thanks,
-T

Scott Alfter

2007-09-03, 1:19 pm

In article <Ja4Ci.68$h06.62@trnddc03>,
ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@NoSpam.verizon.net> wrote:
>I am not having too much luck with LSI's SATA Megaraid boards.
>(3.5 times slower under CentOS 5 than 4.x)
>
>Anyone have a favorite hardware SATA RAID controller, other than
>LSI? Any that are VERY RHEL5/CentOS5 friendly with built in drivers?

I've had good luck with Areca SATA controllers, in both PCI-X and PCI
Express flavors. I've set them up under Gentoo (on AMD64, not x86), so I'd
imagine they would get along with whatever distro you want to use.

>I have both PCI-X and PCI-e slots available.

See above.

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Michael Zawrotny

2007-09-04, 1:17 pm

Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote:
> ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@NoSpam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I've had good luck with Areca SATA controllers, in both PCI-X and PCI
> Express flavors. I've set them up under Gentoo (on AMD64, not x86), so I'd
> imagine they would get along with whatever distro you want to use.

I can second the Areca recommendation. I've had one serving 4 TB of
data for 18 months with zero problems. The 3ware escalade 95xx's also
work well in my experience. I've had no problems with those either.

Mike

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