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

[Brian Wood]

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.

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