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. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos