Please suggest a good brand/model with the following features: 1. At least 11 SATA ports. 2. PCI-X. 3. On-board cache (preferably upgradable, but that's not required.) 4. Battery backup for the cache available. 5. Supported in Debian main (preferably Lenny). 6. SMART access to individual drives.
I'm going to use software RAID instead of hardware RAID, so I don't actually need any RAID features supported by the card, but I'm not opposed to them being available. I'm currently using an ARC-1160 from Areca, but it appears to be dying so I need some replacement ideas. I've heard 3Ware mentioned. I could go with Areca again, although the SMART access to individual drives does seem to give sane values when querying Pass-Through drives while the controller is in RAID mode. Perhaps it works better with the controller in JBOD mode, but I'm still migrating some data off of a HW raid set. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
