[CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller
Lee W
centos-list at unassemble.co.uk
Tue May 10 19:00:35 UTC 2005
Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Lee W wrote:
>
>
> I don't have any experience with the Promise card, but I can highly
> recommend any recent vintage 3Ware RAID card. They're not terribly
> expensive and the new 9500 4 port cards should be tiny enough to
> easily fit in a mini-ITX case. That card plus 4 400gig drives would
> give you a 4 disk RAID 5 array (with very good read/write performance)
> and well over a terabyte of usable storage. It wasn't long ago that a
> 10gig drive was as big as a shoebox and now you can fit over a
> terabyte of redundant storage and a fairly powerful computer in the
> same form factor. We live in interesting times.
> Cheers,
>
> C
>
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the very prompt reply. Any ideas where I can get them?
My other searches mentioned a few 3Ware cards but they don't seem to be
available anywhere in the UK.
Regards
Lee
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