[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Hardware RAID 1 card recommendation?

[Stuart Johnston]

Fred Hensley wrote:
> Hey Gang,
> 
> Must be that time of the year again for a raid conversation, eh?   :)
> 
> I have inherited a 5-year old Dell server (400SC) which is a pentium 4,
> 2.4Ghz, 4gb memory, and recently installed 2x160GB seagate scsi hard
> drives. 
> 
> While loading Ubuntu server 7.10, I attempted to setup software raid 1
> configuration for these drives (which I do regularly), but learned after
> the fact that this particular server doesn't support software raid...

Huh?  How does a server not support software raid?  Isn't the point of 
software raid that is isn't dependent on the hardware?

> Okey-dokey, back to the drawing board...
> 
> Can someone suggest a decent, inexpensive pci hardware raid controller
> card for mirroring these two scsi hard drives under a raid 1
> configuration using ubuntu?  Oh, and one that is hopefully pretty simple
> to install/configure too.

For SCSI RAID, I like the LSI MegaRAID controllers.  When model you need 
will depend on which type of SCSI interface your drives are and what 
type of PCI slots you have available.  They are not exactly cheap, though.

You might get a better deal on one of the Dell branded versions. 
http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml#megaraid_scsi