RAID controler

[Jordan Gomila]

I am running on a Windows 2000 Server over an Intel P4 (865 Motherboard) I
don't have any 64bits slot, neither PCI Express.

I have installed an Adaptec SCSI controler without raid capabiliti with
2x36GB Fujitsu HDD.

I am actualy a bit just of space, and I am disapointed because I have a
security copy of one disc over the other ( I think that it's not secure
enoug).

I am looking for a Raid controler, hardware based, for a PCI 32bits.

I saw a RAID 5 controler for PCI with 4 SATA ports.

What do you recomend ?


If I upgrade to a new server, what platform do you recomend ? P4 (i925),
Xeon+SCSI, Xeon+SATA, Opteron, 1 or 2 processors ?

 

[Arno Wagner]

I am running on a Windows 2000 Server over an Intel P4 (865 Motherboard) I
don't have any 64bits slot, neither PCI Express.

I have installed an Adaptec SCSI controler without raid capabiliti with
2x36GB Fujitsu HDD.

I am actualy a bit just of space, and I am disapointed because I have a
security copy of one disc over the other ( I think that it's not secure
enoug).

I am looking for a Raid controler, hardware based, for a PCI 32bits.

I saw a RAID 5 controler for PCI with 4 SATA ports.

What do you recomend ?

Stay away from Adaptec SATA-RAID. It is slow, unreliable and
has monitoring tools unusable for automatic monitoring from
my experience (was with Linux). They also do not have SMART
monitoring, even though some of their documentation claims
they have it.

Arno

 

[dg]

I am running on a Windows 2000 Server over an Intel P4 (865 Motherboard) I
don't have any 64bits slot, neither PCI Express.

I have installed an Adaptec SCSI controler without raid capabiliti with
2x36GB Fujitsu HDD.

I am actualy a bit just of space, and I am disapointed because I have a
security copy of one disc over the other ( I think that it's not secure
enoug).

I am looking for a Raid controler, hardware based, for a PCI 32bits.

I saw a RAID 5 controler for PCI with 4 SATA ports.

What do you recomend ?


If I upgrade to a new server, what platform do you recomend ? P4 (i925),
Xeon+SCSI, Xeon+SATA, Opteron, 1 or 2 processors ?

I use an LSI Megaraid SATA 4 port card, I really like it. If I did it over
again today, I would get the LSI 6 port card with battery backup. These
cards will work in 32 or 64 bit PCI slots, mine is in a 32 bit slot.

The only other cards I would consider are 3ware. I believe they too offer a
battery backed SATA raid card now.

BTW, the battery backup is only used if you have a power failure while the
cache is full, the adapter saves the cache until power is restored and then
writes it to the disk. An uncommon occurance, but its really not that much
more expensive and it would make me feel a little better.

--Dan

 

[Jordan Gomila]

Thanks for both answers.

I saw a Tekram with a 8x PCI-Express conector that could rum from 4x to 8x
for diferent versions with 4, 8, 12 or 16 SATA II conectors.

That could be conected to the 16x PCI Express ?
It is directly from the north bridge it should be better than the connected
to the southbridge.

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Atentamente,

Jordan Gomila
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