On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote: > Hi > > I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an > advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some > problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the > bullet and buy a good/nice card. > > What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within > linux, sort of like mdadm does, so that if/when a drive goes faulty I > will be notified. I would also like to be able to use smartctl on the > individual drives so I can gather information from them whilst linux is > running. > > I have been looking at the Highpoint Rocket Raid 3530, this seems to > fit the build for me, but thats from reading the doco. > > I was wondering has any one on the list been using these cards ? what is > the management software like and the monitoring > > > Thanks > > Alex > > > > > -- > "I'd rather have them sacrificing on behalf of our nation than, you know, > endless hours of testimony on congressional hill." > > - George W. Bush > 06/04/2002 > Fort Meade, Maryland > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkt4hBwACgkQkZz88chpJ2NG/wCfRCQMmqh7kUN4B8mC2euIxJNR > 158Anj/T8/WCxZKiHGhQ5cLuQmy44iFC > =Kqf2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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