[Discuss] trying to get quotes on a server.....

[Paul Nienaber]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> Thanks, Chris, for that excellent up-to-date reference, but I think your
> characterization of "quite hit or miss" gives an incorrect negative
> impression (unless you interpret that to mean some manufacturers are 
> solid
> hits and some are misses).
Bingo. And all of the commodity onboard stuff that I have run into in 
the last 2 years (VIA, nVidia, Silicon Image) is supported. Watch out 
for weird off-brand stuff (as Chris pointed out to me, the 
ServerWorks/BCM stuff doesn't seem to be supported).



David Bronaugh wrote:
> Chris Kloosterman wrote:
>> http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html
>>
>> It's quite hit and miss. You will pretty much definitely have to use 
>> software raid.
>>
> Unless you go 3Ware, that's not exactly a hardship.
Meh @ 3ware. They haven't bothered keeping up with the times, as far as 
I'm concerned. If I was doing servery stuff I would take a good solid 
look (as I already have for my own purposes, but decided against for 
now) Areca and Promise's hardware RAID6 offerings.

~p