Re: [gentoo-server] Sata controller for a backupserver!

[Marcus Andersson]

Thanks everybody for the good input... I will do another round of
reading and looking before I decide what card to buy.

Thanks again.

/marcus

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:29 +0000, deadhead wrote:
> You've to decide if you want a SW o HW raid ;-) . The Sw way is cheaper
> then the HW one, but the second doesn't overload the CPU since all the
> work is done by the RAID controller. As many told you 3Ware and LSI are
> reliable pieces of HW. But if you really want a SW RAID, it's enought
> for you to buy a SATA/SCSI controller (not RAID, the kernel will do the
> dirty job!), if you haven't already one on your motherboard. It's better
> for you to buy a card with a chipset already supportedin the kernel.

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