[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

Yes, just read here http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil24 that
software RAID with the 'md' driver is pretty good with the higher 2.6
kernels. This office server won't be heavily stressed so I think I'll go
with it. Presume I just switch off the onboard SiliconImage drivers first?

Garry
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