On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 at 10:52am, Florin Andrei wrote > I need a SATA RAID PCI card that works well with CentOS and is fully > supported. Mandatory features: > - works with the drivers already in the kernel, no additional drivers > - can do RAID 0, 1 and 5 > - hotswap > - allows to monitor the status of the array and of each individual drive via > a script (ideally run from cron) > - works with very large SATA drives > > Nice to have features but not mandatory: > - small battery to keep the array alive until the write buffers are flushed > after a power loss > > Anyone having positive experience with SATA RAID, please comment. 3ware. Period. 9550/9590 will do everything you want. 9650 gets you RAID6, but I'm not sure the distro provided drivers have caught up yet. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University