On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Therese Trudeau wrote: > > Hi, > > 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/ B