Re: [CentOS] [OT/HW] hardware raid -- comment/experience with 3Ware

On 2013-03-13, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks to everyone for sharing your thoughts, suggestions and comments. I am still leaning towards a hardware raid controller but will look into the MegaRAID controllers as well.

All of the controllers mentioned so far--3ware, MegaRAID (both made by LSI), and Areca--are true hardware RAID controllers. If you intended on doing md RAID you would probably not purchase one of these, but would go instead with a simple SATA/SAS controller with sufficient ports and bandwidth to host all your drives (and make sure all hardware components supported hot swap).

--keith