Zitat von Aleksandar Milivojevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Norman Zhang wrote: > > May I ask has anyone consider SATA RAID yet? I seems to be a very > > inexpensive solution. > > All inexpensive SATA RAID solutions are "fake RAID". This includes > almost all SATA controlers that are integrated into motherboards and > marketed as RAID capable. They are software RAID. Basically, you use > BIOS to write some metadata to the disks (configure the RAID), and than > you need to use special drivers in OS that will do the actual software > RAID stuff. Most of those specialized drivers are slow, unstable, not > available for anything but Windows, or all three of previous statements. > If you have one of those motherboards and/or controllers, you are far > better disabling RAID stuff in BIOS and using standard Linux software > RAID drivers (md) or standard *BSD RAID drivers (RAIDframe).
If you want the benefits of host independant RAID and cheap SATA disks you may have a look at this one : http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/product/pci/rz_sata_8/8586rz_e.htm Regards Andreas --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html