SATA cards? RAID/Non RAID

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

We use RAID controllers from 3ware (several vintages).. They work.

Drew Van Zandt wrote:

> I use SYBA controllers with 4 internal.  They run about $20 on newegg.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020
>
> On 6/26/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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