raid controller recommendation

Fri Dec 12 00:41:01 UTC 2003

Jesse Keating wrote:

> And yet there still isn't any better performing, better supported SATA 
> raid card/chip out there, so one has to ask, does it really matter?

3w RAID 'SATA' boards are _very expensive_.
And _any_ SATA board gets same performance than 3ware. Promise and BCM
are ready and supported by LiNUX [1]. And RAIDCore is much faster/cheaper
than 3w, but I don't know if it runs with LiNUX.

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=107048452605455&w=2