[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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