SATA cards? RAID/Non RAID

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/26/06, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

>
> Speaking of which, what's the best SATA raid card these days? I'd
> be using this under CentOS. Does anyone make a raid card for 5 SATA
> drives, or am I stuck using just 4 drives in the unit?



RaidCore/BroadCom has a 4 port and an 8 port SATA RAID card.  I was testing
an 8 port one w/ 2 of the SuperMicro enclosures w/ 10 drives.  2 drives were
unused.  You can also use multiple RaidCore cards together and combine the
drives.  Ex:  16 drives, 2 of the 8 port cards in a RAID 0, 1, 1+n, 5, 10,
50 array that looks like 1 big drive to the OS (RedHat, Fedora, Suse,
Windows).  They run something like $300.

On a similar note, I'd like to find a multiport SATA controller (> 3 active
ports) and I can't spend $300 :-(.  I don't care about hardware RAID, I just
want multiple SATA drives attached.

I've seen 4 port cards that have 2 internal and 2 external, but only 2 ports
can be used at a time.  That isn't what I'm looking for.
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