[CentOS] SATA RAID card recommendation?
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Thu Mar 22 01:29:52 UTC 2007
Justin Cataldo wrote:
> Some of these might be worth looking at:
Only the Areca line of boards have onboard memory to use as a write
cache and most of those featured are overkill for a 1U box.
If you are going to go for an Areca, you might as well get the 3ware
since 3ware drivers are already in the kernel whereas Areca is still
working on theirs.
>
> http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_raid_controllers/
>
> JC
>
> On 3/21/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
>>
>> Florin Andrei wrote:
>> > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Erm, how many spindles can you fit in that 1U? 4 is the most I've
>> seen.
>> >
>> > Yup, 4 disks. 2 for OS, 2 for DB. RAID1
>> >
>>
>> Well then may I suggest using the motherboard provided disk connectors
>> and then getting yourself a BBU NVRAM or DDR RAM board to use as an
>> external journal?
>>
>> What kind of box is this? The motherboard may already come with a BBU
>> write cache for all we know.
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