[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: true hardware/intelligent ATA RAID -- WAS: compression and Filesystem question

[Kevin Brannen]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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>I prefer 3Ware, especially now that the Escalade 9000 series is out
>with a large SDRAM buffer in addition to the non-blocking ASIC+SRAM
>design.
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>...
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>In  a nutshell, I buy only two types of RAID cards:
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>ASIC+SRAM:   $100-500
>- 3Ware Escalade series (9000s are not much more, well worth it)
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>uc+DRAM:  $1,000+
>- StrongARM/xScale microcontroller based (e.g., Mylex eXtremeRAId)
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I've had good performance out of the Adaptec 1200a, which is a low end 
RAID card.  It only supports RAID 0, 1, 0/1, & JBOD; but it supports 
ATA/100 disks.  Note!  I've only used it under ms-win2k in a RAID 1 
configuration.

For a card in the $55-$75 range, I'd really like to find out if Linux 
will support it (found a few hits on Google that say yes, and a few that 
say there were problems with it).

Kevin