On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 07:20:05AM -0400, Jake McHenry wrote:
:
: I would not go with software raid no matter what you do. It is a system
: resource hog beyond your wildest dreams. A raid controller is the way to
: go, but unfortunatly, I've don't know off the top of my head what the
: differences, advantages are between the different cards. Adaptec has been
: a good company though the years, but like I said, I'm not sure about that.
: But don't go for the software raid, it may be cheaper, but you will pay
: for it double with lost performance.
Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the Adaptec RAID cards have
no Linux support.
I've had good success with the AMI Megaraid adapters. Lots of others have
had lots of success with Mylex and ICP-Vortex. Good cards, all of them.
SCSI only, of course. You know, that whole "multiple concurrent I/O" thing.
:)
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