SATA Raid 5 recommendation?

[Eucke Warren]

Chris Barnes wrote:
> Paul Crossman <pcrossma at orange.us> wrote:
> 
>>WOW, that's a lot of TV!!!  4x200GB @ RAID5 = 600GB.
>>
>>I've been talking with a local system integrator about doing SATA
>>Raid 5 with Linux (Red Hat Enterprise to be specific), and they are
>>not recommending the promise controllers for Linux.
>>
>>They are recommending the 3ware 4 or 8 drive controller for my
>>specific needs.
> 
> 
> I'll second this.  I've used Promise controllers in the past and have 
> never had much success with them.  We have a new 3ware 8 drive 
> controller and am about to put it into production (for users to backup 
> their office machines to).  We'll see how well that works.

I'll third that.  3ware also has great support.  Promise wanted me to 
sign a non-disclosure to get my hands on the source code to compile my 
own drivers for FC2.....umm...what?!?!?  That will likely be the last 
time I work with Promise.  3ware was great to work with.

my 2 cents....  YMMV

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Eucke