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Need to decide on PCI SATA RAID card that will install without problems.Suggest please.

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I need to decide on PCI SATA RAID card that will install without problems.The card needs to support 1TB drives.Does anyone have a hardware compatibility list for 4 port PCI SATA RAID controllers?

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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) said : 		#1

See http://www.clintoneast.com/articles/linux-sata-raid.php for one person's set of ideas about a range of SATA cards for use with Linux. An older article from a respected source (Rick Moen) is at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html .

I'd look at the current Areca, 3Ware and LSI MegaRaid cards, all of which have decent Linux support. You'll find that many decent SATA RAID cards are PCI-X or PCI-e these days, though, finding one that will work in an old-fashioned PCI slot may be a minor challenge. Good old PCI doesn't really have the bandwidth to handle a bunch of modern disks all hanging off one slot, so manufacturers provide PCI-X and PCI-e cards instead. Some PCI-X cards will downgrade and work (more slowly perhaps) in a PCI slot, but some really need a full PCI-X slot.

If you are building a fairly serious server, you may want to consider using a server-class motherboard that has a PCI-X slot, or a PCI-e x8 or better slot you can use for the RAID controller?

Jonathan

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