Best Raid 1 Controller Card ?

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chuck.streb@gmail.com - 21 Dec 2007 16:06 GMT

I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
machine at work.
I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on
some machines and not on others
and the machines are identical. I need one that works and has good
instructions and works all the time. The documentation for the
Promise
card is useless.

I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.

Thanks Much

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Arno Wagner - 21 Dec 2007 18:30 GMT

> I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
> machine at work.
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> Promise
> card is useless.

> I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.

> Thanks Much

I would recommend 3ware. Not cheap, but the promise-cards are
really fakeRAID, i.e. BIOS raid. That is a lso the reason
for their ''moodyness''.

Arno

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Eric Gisin - 22 Dec 2007 21:26 GMT

You want firmware RAID, not hardware (which is pci-x and no faster).
Silicon Image is fine, like this:
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=19892&vpn=PCI-3114-4IR-01&manufacture=Syba

>I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
> machine at work.
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>
> I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.

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