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You might want take a look at your numbers again. Using 500GB SATA disks |
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or bigger means you don't need such expensive raid cards (or multiple raid |
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cards)... Also, you have fewer moving parts to break. |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Mike Williams wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> In the next month or so I wish/need to make some storage modifications, I'm |
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> running out of space, quickly. |
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> Currently it's a horrible hodge podge of 2 RAID5s in one VG, and 1 RAID10 in |
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> another VG. 1 of 3 is PATA other 2 SATA (RAID5), 5 of 5 SATA (RAID5), and 4 |
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> of 4 PATA (RAID10), 1 of 1 PATA (boot and OS). Spread over the on-board PATA |
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> controller, a PCI 2 port PATA (for the 4 drives in RAID10), and an 8 port |
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> marvell SATA card (which doesn't have a usable driver I can find after |
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> 2.6.13). |
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> That lot in a very old globalwin 302 (??) midi tower. |
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> Yes, it's *hot*. |
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> I already know I'm going for a Antec P180, so I'm limited to a maximum of 10 |
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> drives, one boot disk, and a CD (something I'm missing now). |
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> 320GB drives are the best £/GB at the moment, even if they only give 298GB |
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> usable space. |
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> 10 x 298GB / RAID6 == just under twice what I've got already, and more |
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> redundancy. |
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> So, the point in my post. I need a 12 port SATA card that works properly with |
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> open-source drivers (preferable in kernel). |
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> Cost isn't the primary concern, even if this is only for home use. |
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> I don't need, or in fact want, on-board RAID, software RAID is better in my |
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> opinion. |
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> 3x 4 ports is an option, at a push. I'd rather not lose the gigabit nic |
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> though. |
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> I see that 3ware do a 12 port card, but it's over 500 quid! Cost may not be |
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> the primary concern, but 500 quid is still 500 quid! |
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> Anyone with any experience? |
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> Ta |
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Bryan Whitehead |
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Email:driver@×××××××××.net |