[SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

[Munjal Thakkar]

a lot of the higherend highpoint cards are pretty good if you ask me, but as
stated in reviews, the tech support doesn't just suck, its non-existant.
3ware is overpriced for a home media server if you ask me, i would shop
around for a highpoint and go for that, see if it works out for you. So far
I have an older card, an 1820 with 8 sata ports running a raid 5 with all
channels with 500 gig drives, so far its been running fine (for the most
part) for over a year. So it all depends.

Or, if your media server is strictly to just place media, why not take a
look at www.freenas.org. ? Its BSD based actually, but works really well and
the software raid built in has a lot of support behind it and proven
stability (and read/write speeds of 400MB/sec even, on the right hardware).
This might be off tracking, but could lead to a possibly cheaper solution?

On Jan 19, 2008 11:59 AM, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have had good luck with 3ware cards, there drivers are in the kernel
> and they are real raid not hardware assisted software raid. But you
> get what you pay for they are much more expensive. On the other hand
> if the highpoint card is support in core 1-7 then the drivers are in
> the kernel. But again for $118 you are most certainly getting software
> raid with a bios utility to set it up.
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 10:29 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > Good morning all,
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> >
> >
> > I unfortunately ran out of space on my media server last week and need
> to
> > add 4 more 1T drives, but am out of SATA ports.
> >
> >
> >
> > I looked online and found a 4 port SATA II PCIe x1 card which would take
> > advantage of the three unused x1 ports on my motherboard.
> >
> >
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=
> >
> >
> >
> > The reviews of the card state that the manufacturer (in Milipitas) is
> > *horrible* for technical support with people getting a response only
> after
> > multiple calls and emails.
> >
> >
> >
> > The manufacturer's site lists drivers for Fedora Code 1-6 and Fedora
> core 7.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with these cards (Highpoint) or can you
> > recommend a good 4 port SATA2 PCI or PCIe1 card?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have tried contacting the manufacturer to see if they support F8 yet,
> but
> > am not holding my breath.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any experience you have had with SATA cards under
> > Linux,
> >
> >
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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