[mythtv-users] RAID BTDT's

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 1, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Michael Heironimus wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:34:00AM -0700, Clayton Huml wrote:
>> Any BTDT's on hardware raid on Linux?  I am looking at building  
>> separate box
>> on linux with a SATA II raid setup with WD3200KS 320GB/16MB cache  
>> drives on
>> a Highpoint RocketRaid 2224.
>
> That's not a hardware RAID controller. It's just a proprietary  
> software
> RAID with a BIOS that can boot the "array". You'd probably be  
> better off
> using it as an ordinary SATA controller with a generic Linux software
> RAID volume across the drives. Or spend a little more money and get a
> card that does real hardware RAID.
>

Not sure what you mean by a "little more money", but any card capable  
of "real" RAID-5 seems expensive to me.

Any suggestions for a real RAID card (SATA or PATA) for say under  
$200US ?