[CentOS] [OT/HW] hardware raid -- comment/experience with 3Ware

Wed Mar 6 16:35:45 UTC 2013
Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com>

Greetings,

I am looking for a hardware raid card that supports up to 4 SATA II
hard disks with hot swap (compatible raid cage)

I have short listed two LSI/3Ware cards:
1. 9750-4i
2. 9650SE-4LPML

Both appear to be well supported in Linux.

I would appreciate your personal experience with the CLI tools
provided by LSI.
Can they be configured to send email for disk failures or SMART errors?
Is there a Web interface for monitoring?

Any preference between 1 and 2 above.

Thanks for your time and suggestions.
-- Arun Khan