Is there a TRUE high perfomance hardware RAID that IS supported? (was: [SLE] Motherboard JBOD??)

Brad Bourn wrote:

Will the software RAID be fast enough for SAMBA share on gigabit network with a dozed full time apps getting their data realtime from server?

I suspect only a benchmark will tell.

I guess if it is not, then, there are 2 questions.

Is there a TRUE high perfomance hardware RAID that IS supported?

Plenty. Current popular manufacturers are e.g. 3ware for their SATA RAIDs, but also older ones such as e.g. Compaq, Adaptec, IGP, Mylex etc. have good support. /Per Jessen, Zürich