On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 at 11:00am, Bowie Bailey wrote > It's pretty well established that 3ware is a good "real" hardware raid > card for SATA drives. > > So what is a good card for SCSI raid? My searches have come up with > Adaptec and LSI as the main players here. Are the LSI MegaRAID cards > "real" hardware raid? Which cards can give good raid 5 performance? Yes, the MegaRAIDs are "real" hardware RAID (a quick look at the specs shows the onboard IOP). I honestly don't know how they perform in RAID5 (I use mine for a cluster head node, just doing RAID1), but I'd make sure you get the PCI-X (or PCIe) versions rather than the regular PCI ones. The driver support is quite good, but the monitoring is a little tougher. I've been shying away from Adapted for a while now, so I have no experience with them at all. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University