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Hi,
I'm about to receive a number of new servers built upon Intels' new serverboard
(Jarrell SE7520JR2), and would like to hear recommendations for good raid
controllers. We only use raid 1.
A good raidcontroller would mean:
1. mature driver
2. commandline based management (primarily for checking raid status)
3. Supported in RHEL3
I've got a choice between
1. Adaptec SCSI RAID Card 2130SLP
http://raid.adaptec.com/ASR-2130S.html
or
2. Intel SRCZCRX SCSI RAID, 128 MB, Zero Channel
http://cache-www-o.intel.com/cd/00/00/18/33/183364_183364.pdf
I'm not keen on the Intel controller, as very few people seems to use it and
intels driver support is not the best. The adaptec seems to have better driver
support, but I'm unsure about how stable their driver is and especially if I
can
monitor raid status from scripts.
The older Adaptec boards who used the dpt_i2o driver had excellent performance
and good management utilities, but the utilities doesn't work on recent Adaptec
controllers.
Has anyone got experience with the above controllers, or other recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
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Tommy Davis, Technical Director
Adapt A/S, Havnegade 41, 2. sal, 1058 K?benhavn K
Tel +45 3341 1050, Fax +45 3341 1069, http://www.adapt.dk/
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