On 11/4/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to probe the list to see what hardware RAID solutions people > can recommend that will: > > 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 > 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's > in-progress SATA hotplug patches) > 3. Do the work in hardware > 4. Be fast and reliable > > All I've done previously is software RAID 10 which I'm happy with, but > I'm now building a high-performance database / file server and don't > want the machine spending time calculating parity and so on. > > Many thanks, > Chris
I've used 3ware SATA RAID cards (8xxx and 9xxx series) for a long time, in several servers, and I love 'em. They work far better than any SCSI RAID cards I've used (except for raw speed, of course. SCSI > SATA) and are supported very well under Linux and FreeBSD. I don't know how well they work with Linux "hotplug" stuff, but I do know that you can hot swap the drives within RAIDs easily, as that's all handled by the card itself.
