[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[Dan Ferris]

In my experience (2 dozen of those things) they are garbage.  I have
seen so many RAID controllers fail it's not funny and 95% of them were
3Wares.

The LSI cards are far better.  They are also more expensive though
especially when you get to the point where you want battery backed cache.

For personal use, I'd just use the Linux software RAID.  It's very good
and on a modern CPU there is virtually no overhead.

Dan

On 09/18/2014 04:17 PM, George Sexton wrote:
> I'm looking for some recommendations for RAID controllers. I've been
> using 3Ware 9xxx devices, but with SSD's, the write performance is
> beyond terrible. I'm looking for a "real" RAID card, with hot swap. I
> only need support for 4 devices, and ideally I'd like to buy it used on
> EBay, cheap.
> 
> 
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> George Sexton
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