[CentOS] Hardware RAID Controller

[Lee W]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

>On Tue, 10 May 2005 at 8:36pm, Lee W wrote
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>>Okay I'm getting a bit over my head now.  Anyone see any problems 
>>putting 2 of these in the same machine. After a few other comments I was 
>>thinking of trying 2 x RAID-1's.
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>Most (all but one, actually) of my 3ware based servers have multiple cards 
>in 'em.  My most recent has two 9500s-12 boards in it (on separate PCI 
>busses), each board set to RAID 5 w/ a hot spare, and I do a software 
>RAID0 across the two arrays.  Performance (tiobench) graphs here:
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>http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tioread.png
>http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tiowrite.png
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>In short, it goes fast.
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Thanks for all the advise people have offered.  I've been checking out 
all the 3ware cards available and believe that the Escalade 7506-4LP 
would be best for me. 

However I've noticed that it is a 64-Bit PCI Card.  Can I still use this 
in a 32-Bit Slot.  I think that I read something once that said it would 
work but at a reduced bandwidth.

Regards

Lee