[mythtv-users] RocketRAID Cards, was: OT: help selecting drives for server

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Brent Norris <brent at brentnorris.net> wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 07:32:00 Jon Bishop wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 18, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Nasa wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 8-port cards are either PCI-X or PCIExpress for that reason.
>>>>
>>>> It's a HighPoint Technologies, RocketRaid 2320
>>>
>>> I believe that with those HighPoint cards, you can use them as
>>> controller cards without using the RAID function. I know it was true
>>> of my RocketRaid IDE raid cards.
>>
>> Yes, that's what I was doing. It worked, but it could not use the latest
>> modes. It was a little strange, Linux saw the drives, but as sde, sdg, sdi
>> and sdk, instead of a,b,c,d. Not really a problem, just odd.
>>
>> There is apparently an open source driver to use the RAID functions of the
>> card, I never played with that.
>>
>> But since I had a 133Mhz. PCI-X slot, I wanted to get a 64-bit card for
>> better performance. If you are using 32-bit slots, the RocketRaid is an
>> option if you already have one, but I wouldn't buy one specifically for
>> Linux, since software RAID works just as well or better with a cheaper card.
>>
>> Of course the OSS driver may work better than software RAID, but I don't
>> know about that. Personally I doubt it, but I have no data to back up that
>> opinion.
>>
>  It sounds like it is actually a FakeRAID card.  If that is the case you are
> probably better off using the Software RAID functions of Linux.  *In my
> experience*
>
> Brent

too bad you still have to pay for all the fake raid chips. Which is
why that Supermicro PCI card is so popular. Too bad there is no PCIx
version of it.


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