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On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:32 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 |
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> media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA |
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> controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned |
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> when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have |
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> both PCIe and PCI slots available. I do not need high performance as |
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> the RAID will just contain media files for access in my home. I would |
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> prefer a controller supported by normal kernel drivers. My preference |
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> is to keep costs down (3 x 1 TB drives are costly enough :). |
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> Any recommendations? |
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Well since you're not concerned about RAID or performance... |
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I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW |
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RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't |
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supported by the kernel. |
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-a |
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