[H-GEN] SCSI Raid Cards

Tony Melia (DMS) Tony.Melia at downsmicro.com.au
Sun Aug 31 19:35:14 EDT 2003


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What's the issues with Promise and Highpoint????

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From: David Jericho [mailto:davidj at pisoftware.com] 
Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 09:27
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James Collins wrote:
>     Any Humbug folks had any experience with SCSI Raid cards and 
> Linux? Any recommendations on which one to buy? Or should I just stick 
> to Linux's Software Raid?

Depends entirely on your budget and what you're expecting.

If you're wanting data stability in the event of a drive failure and you 
don't mind a crash, software RAID is fine. Most motherboards and 
controllers don't handle losing a disk too well.

If your machine has to stay up even though a drive death, hardware RAID 
is the go. I've used 3ware extensively and trust them a lot.

Other have used Adaptec and sworn by them too. Avoid HPT(Highpoint) or
Promise.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software


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