raid controller recommendation

[leam]

Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:

(snip lots of RAID stuff and opinions)

Requesting clarifications. There seems to be several opinions based on 
different questions. I'm very interested in the topic, but if you more 
knowledgeable types could work through the confusion it would help.

1. The topic seems to be hardware RAID solutions. Software RAID has its 
place, but not on this topic. Maybe a performance test later?

2. There seems to be different levels of board; for example the 100MHz 
small system and the high-end boards that can handle up to 16 drives. 
Can you address recommendations on *both* ends of the spectrum? Are 
there eother product catagories?

3. Please support statements of opinion with evidence of fact. "You are 
wrong." is an opinion. "3ware boards did not have a fast chipset until 
the 7xxx series." is a more factual statement. "I run 3ware boards with 
16 disks in a production environment" is a statement of fact. What 
conclusions we draw from that are opinions.  :)


For those of us new to some of these things, what sort of enclosure 
would you use for a larger (4-8-16) disk set?

ciao!

leam