On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:28:42AM -0500, tclug at b-o-b.homelinux.com wrote: > Hello, and a good day to you all. Forgive me for not doing my research up > front, but can anyone recommend a good SATA raid pci card. Richard, You need to define: 'good', 'raid' and 'price'. Then pick two 8^) If you want real RAID, you need to go to 3WARE, Areca, Hightpoint, Adaptec or LSI Logic, and cough up $100 or more per port. But you get hardware raid, battery backup for the cache, better management, maybe some extra checksumming. If you want decent host-based RAID you can try the Addonics stuff. They have a nice line of external SATA enclosures and multi-port cards. They have 4-port RAID for around $100, either internal or external. If you want cheap, go with a JBOD controller and use the Linux software RAID implementation. Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080507/f2ce6307/attachment.pgp