[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[M.Blackmore]

Welllll ... the discussion ended up on double ended gyroscopically
powered buses in the end ...

Err, ok, on a 400mhz spare old computer to run a home fileserver (and
its inheritors as handmedowns occur) is it worth running a hardware raid
or should I just stick with software raid?

Tho' 3ware cards seemed to get a vote and secondments to use for
hardware.

I never really got an answer!



> Is there a SATA card that does hardware raid that is worth having?
> 
> Its for a home server to store pikkies etc. on, so performance doesn't
> have to be hot.
> 
> Wondering whether having hardware raid is an improvement over software
> raid with a pair of 300gb disks??
> 
> (I'm getting 3x of these, two in the raid, one somewhere else in the
> house at the end of a wire to be rsync'd to).
> 
> Obviously must be recognised by linux for a not too tekky user!
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