[OT] hardware SATA raid which is 32-bit PCI compatible?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am in the market for a hardware SATA raid card which should at least
> do RAID 5 and of course work with Fedora. Most cards are for 64-bit PCI
> busses only. Are there any cards which work on a standard 32-bit PCI
> bus? I know I won't get max performance but for the time being...

yes, the 3ware cards work in 32bit pci slots. something like a 8506 with 
some reasonably fast disk will get into the range of perhaps 70MB/s 
writeing on a big raid-5 stripe so you can get most of the performance 
you'd expect out of a 32bit pci card, it's just that when you add a second 
one and a couple of gigabit ethernets it's not going to continue to scale 
very well.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jurgen
> 
> 
> 
> 

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