On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Hello!
The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have
built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with the
Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI
utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is something
else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with?
IMHO it's the entire product line of ICP Vortex, now owned
by Adaptec. These cards really rock. Battery backed up cache,
RAID 1+0, driver maintained my company's engineers, yet in
the stock FreeBSD kernel, curses based management utility
to repair arrays without reboot, unattended rebuild if
you exchange a broken disk with a brand new one, same
interface to the host for _all_ products including SATA, ...
'k, its the above that I've grown to love with the Intel cards ... do you
have a URL for these? Checking Adaptec's site, they don't seem to
explicitly list the ICP Vortex stuff ...
Also, is there a particular card that I should avoid, in their line up, or
are they all good?
I'm looking to put this into an Intel SR1400 Server Platform ... the
motherboard has onboard U320 SCSI, so I was figuring to go the 0 Channel
route ... and the SR1400 is 3x drive bays, so would be going RAID5 for
this ...
thanks ...
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