On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 at 1:11am, Franki wrote > I'm looking into setting up a SATA hardware raid, probably 5 to use with > CentOS 4. I chose hardware raid over software mostly because I like the > fact that the raid is transparent to the OS. > > Does anyone know of any SATA controllers that are well tested for this > sort of usage? IMO, 3ware is far and away the best choice for true hardware SATA RAID. The 3w-xxxx driver (for the 8000 series boards) has been in the kernel for a *long* time, and 3w-9xxx driver (for the 9000 series) has been in a while as well. There are some better performers out there at the moment (Areka, for example), but their drivers are unproven. FWIW, I currently have 4TB (2 servers) worth of 3ware based storage in production, and just took delivery of a new 5.5TB server. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University