[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[Glenn English]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 4:17 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com> 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.

How about mdadm? I've been using it with SATA hard disks on my servers (not SSDs). I've found it to be extremely reliable, reasonably easy to deal with, and way faster than the 'Net. And, if your Linux has it available, the price is right :-)

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Glenn English