Matt Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ]
> If you've got the money (and particularly if you want to do RAID-5), > I highly recommend the 3ware cards. They've got a 4-channel card (so > you can put each drive on a separate channel, with none of this > master/slave stuff) which supports RAID-5 (as well as 0, 1, etc. of > course), has open-sourced drivers (included in the kernel) and acts > as a single scsi interface (per array). at work we've recently tested the 8-way 7500-series controller from 3Ware. so far it just works. okay, so since Serial ATA (that would be the 8500-series) drives are still in the blue we have 9 IDE-cables in the cabinet. a bit of a trick to get it tidy, but still. performance is good, no problems at all so far. /dev/sda1 reiserfs 1.3T 373G 957G 28% /mnt/testraid it's also fun to see "T" in the output from 'df -h'. :-) -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
