RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID" 1 card on Centos box

[Therese Trudeau]

>> I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1.  I  
>> read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/ 
>> Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and  
>> real raid cards.
>>
> 
> Discontinued chipset but  works fine:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816110002
> 
> Nice price!  $35/ 5 SATA drive support.  Fewer drives is a $21 card.
> 
> No drivers, you run the RAID from BIOS, it shows as an IDE volume for  
> linux.  See the NewEgg comments for some tips.  Depending on the  
> speed you need, it could be just great.
> 
> You need Windows to update the firmware.  Supports a handful of RAID  
> types, but not RAID 5.  True hardware RAID though.
> 
> All the firmwares, manuals, utils are at:  http://www.soft-port.dk/

Hey thanks much I'll check it out!

One question on this card - does it write the raid metadata onto the
disks rather than store them on the card itself?

I ask because Karanbir (in this thread) reccomends to get that kind.  If it does, maybe
I'll buy two or three of these in case one card fails (since they are out of business).

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