[CentOS] Internal RAID controllers question

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 8:20 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/8/2016 6:10 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> Can we leave this thread just to thoughts I
>> solicited about which of hardware RAID card manufacturers will still
>> exists in close future.
>
>
> predicting the future?  yeah, well.
>
>
> there are really only two choices today, Adaptec and Avago (formerly
> LSI, they also control the former Areca product line). I've not been
> very happy with the level of support Avago is offeriong for older
> products, and I've *never* liked Adaptec. Whoops, Avago is now Broadcom,
> a company I like even less for broken closed source firmware and total
> lack of hardware documentation.
>
> There's a pile of 2nd tier players like Promise, and so forth, I won't
> touch these with a 10 foot pole.
>

John, thanks for your insights! I could not even imagine that my feelings
would be the same about virtually everything... (and this pessimism
prompted me to ask others, but I still hope to hear something optimistic).

Anybody else, anything..?

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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