<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=Big5" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thomas Kappelmueller wrote: <blockquote cite="mid47E91C90.9060804@thomas-krenn.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edwardspl@ita.org.mo">edwardspl@ita.org.mo</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thomas Kappelmueller wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edwardspl@ita.org.mo">edwardspl@ita.org.mo</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thomas Kappelmueller wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Todd Denniston wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Roger Heflin wrote, On 03/24/2008 02:20 PM: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edwardspl@ita.org.mo">edwardspl@ita.org.mo</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Alan Cox wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:39:22 +0800 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edwardspl@ita.org.mo">edwardspl@ita.org.mo</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Dear All, Which model / type of ATA Raid card controller is good for work with New FC System ? Would you please recommend ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Almost every 'raid' controller for ATA devices is just driver level raid, so equivalent to using the built in lvm/md raid support that works with any devices. At the high end there are a few hardware raid cards but they rarely outperform ordinary ATA on PCI Express. </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Edward, The cheapest 4-port raid cards are typically $300US, the 8-port cards are quite a bit more. If you are a home user I would suggest not wasting your money on the HW raid, and has others mentioned it is not really worth the extra money for a home user, so use software raid. Most of the cheaper cards are fakeraid and at best (if supported under DMRAID) are only slightly better than software raid. Roger </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">So would the better question be: Which model / type of ATA multi-port card controller is good when you want to do software RAID with New Fedora System? i.e. which manufactures cards that you can hang 4+ drives off of, have enough independence[1] between drives, that doing software RAID works fast[2]? Can you get 4+ port SATA cards that don't claim to be "RAID" cards? Or has everything already been said here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html">http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html">http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html</a> [1] I am making the old assumption that ATA drives on the same bus slow each other down. Does that really matter with SATA? [2] assuming the controller card is more likely to be the bottleneck than the processor, PCI bus, or drives. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Hi! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix">http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix</a> I would buy a card which drivers have the most features. I chose a cheap "Silicon Image"-chipped sata1 card (sata_sil driver). Hotplugging etc is working fine. The sata_sil24 is the SATA2 chip. -Tom </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Hello, Would you mind tell me your web site of your card model ? Thank for your comment! Edward. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">hi! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.st-lab.com/productf.asp">http://www.st-lab.com/productf.asp</a> It is the one with 4 Ports. It cost me something like 20Łá/25$ Btw I use Linux Software-Raid on it. If you can't get that card just search google for something like "SiI3114 controller card". The newer chips are called Sil3124 and i think there are also some with 8 Ports but I'm not sure. Hope that helps -Tom </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Hello, Why didn't use hardware raid for the Linux ( FC ) System ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Hardware-Raid is much more expensive and for home usage it is absolutely not nesessary. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is there two ports of S-ATA also ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> There is one card with 2 Sata Ports (Sil3112). </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Does FC System built-in driver with it ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The built-in FC8 driver works fine, no need to install additional content. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thank for your comment again... Edward. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> Hello, Just visited <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=29">http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=29</a> BUT it seems only support Windows System... And also to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=28">http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=28</a> It seem support Linux System ( BUT NOT sure FC System )... Edward. </body> </html>