[dundee] SATA Controller Card Recommendations Anyone?

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:24:12 +0100, Simon Wells wrote:

> 
> On 4 May 2011, at 14:13, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:49:36 +0100, Simon Wells wrote:
> > 
> >> Can anyone recommend (ideally from personal experience), a good
> >> quality, inexpensive 4 port SATA controller card? I don't need
> >> hardware RAID features as this will primarily be used, in addition
> >> to 4 onboard SATA ports, to build an 8 drive JBOD array.
> > 
> > Is this for internal drives or external (eSATA)?
> 
> Internal
> 
> > 
> >> Ideally something that works out of the box and has drivers within
> >> the Linux kernel.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm currently using something based on the Silicon Image 3114
> > chipset. A 4-port eSATA card, though it seems things based on that
> > chipset are perhaps best avoided.
> > http://marc.info/?t=123089876500001&r=1&w=2
> 
> That is why I was avoiding those cheap sil based cards that are
> about. I want to pay a bit more for something that won't wreck my
> data.

3ware spring to mind. We have an 8 port (internal) one here running
software RAID 5 with 2 hot spare.

06:00.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-II RAID PCI-X

odin.pccl.info:/home/andrew
               nfs    2.3T  358G  1.9T  16% /home/andrew

That's been running a few years (yeah, it's a small office).

Probably more than you'd want to spend though. Maybe find one on ebay...

> Simon

Andrew