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

[Steven Kurylo]

So why don't I see adaptec on that website?  The 4805SAS does sata...

I have no problem with the 3ware cards.  They've always worked great
and have had the features I've needed.

On 5/3/06, Paul Nienaber <phox at phox.ca> wrote:
> 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
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Steven Kurylo