[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[George Sexton]

On 9/18/2014 4:48 PM, Dan Ferris wrote:
> 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.

I've had a lot of them too, and the performance has been not real hot, 
but the stability has been excellent.

>
> 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.

My machines are in a colocation facility, and the average time between 
outages exceeds the lifespan of a BBU, so I've just kind of given up on 
them.

>
> 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.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> George Sexton
>> *MH Software, Inc.*
>> Voice: 303 438 9585
>> http://www.mhsoftware.com
>>
>>
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