[Gllug] PCI-E RAID card for RHEL4/Fedora 5

[Garry Heaton]

Tethys wrote:
> Garry Heaton writes:
> 
>>> 3ware 9500 series.
>> [...]
>> 
>> Aren't these a lot more than £160?
> 
> Err... probably. I wasn't paying attention and didn't spot the price 
> restriction in your original message. Ho hum. If you only want a 3 drive
> array, why not just use Linux software RAID? With SATA drives, you should
> in theory be able to hot swap them on failure (although I admit to not
> having tried it myself).
> 
> Tet

I've heard this old card:

LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4

... is well supported with Linux drivers and can be had for £166 plus
postage. Any caveats? Much of an improvement over 2.6.x software RAID5?

Garry
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