On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 at 4:09pm, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote > Adaptec and 3ware solutins seem to work nicely. With Adaptec, I'd be > carefull to get aacraid based card, not I2O. In my very limited experience, > 3ware cards were not as flexible as Adaptec's aacraid based cards. The 3ware > you configure once and that's it. With Adaptec, you can migrate data from > individual drives into RAID arrays, expand arrays (even RAID-5), change RAID > levels (migrate volume from for example RAID-1 to RAID-5) and so on. All > while the host is up and running. Well, at least with those I had in my > hands (like for example the SCSI based 2200S). The newer 3ware cards (95xx series, IIRC) do support RAID level migration and array expansion, all online. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University