With IDE's you'll just be limited to a max of 4 physical drives, right? This is not the case with SATA.
--- mike t, --- Junn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > avoid promise sata raid cards. > :) > > Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> hi guys, > >> what are the major difference of IDE and SATA > regarding > >> installation, performance and quality for linux > servers.im still > >> thinking if ill go with the old IDE interface for > my hard drives of > >> the new SATA. i havent configured or installed > any SATA devices with > >> linux, are they same in terms of installation? > > > > > > SATA support for Linux is still maturing. There > are some chipsets > > (e.g. NForce4) which still doesn't have decent > SATA support in Linux. > > NCQ etc have also yet to mature. If you're going > to have them placed > > in a RAID configuration, you can go for hardware > RAID solutions (a > > good list of compatible cards can be found online) > or Linux's much > > faster software RAID. > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
