Re: [CentOS] SATA RAID card recommendation?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 at 10:52am, Florin Andrei wrote

I need a SATA RAID PCI card that works well with CentOS and is fully supported. Mandatory features:

• works with the drivers already in the kernel, no additional drivers
• can do RAID 0, 1 and 5
• hotswap
• allows to monitor the status of the array and of each individual drive via

a script (ideally run from cron)

• works with very large SATA drives

Nice to have features but not mandatory:

• small battery to keep the array alive until the write buffers are flushed

after a power loss

Anyone having positive experience with SATA RAID, please comment.

3ware. Period. 9550/9590 will do everything you want. 9650 gets you RAID6, but I'm not sure the distro provided drivers have caught up yet.