On Monday 02 August 2004 05:55, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
On Monday 02 August 2004 10:37, John Andersen wrote:
If you buy a raid controller then it pretty much does not matter which mobo you get. But be sure you go to the supported hardware section of the SuSE Manual/Website and make sure the raid controller is supported.
It doesn't appear to have much info on SuSE 9.1. :(
I was looking for Serial ATA solutions earlier this year. I found the following webpage to be very helpful: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html So far I've put together 2 systems with RAID. One with an LSI Logic MegaRAID 150-4, and the other with a 3Ware Escalade 9500-8. Of the 2, I'd say shoot for the Escalade. The performance seems to be much better.
OR you could do software raid. This lets you use any mix of disks (scsi, ata, sata) and combine them into an array. Yast handles this quite nicely.
Would this work well with a PCI controller? I'd expect that the kernel would send each package separately over the PCI bus, or ... ?
I don't know much about the operation of the software RAID driver, but I've read time and time again when researching solutions the Linux's software RAID driver beat the pants off of most manufacturer's software RAID drivers. HTH! -John