[KLUG Hardware] SCSI card recommendation
Adam Williams
hardware@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 (EST)
>Speaking of SCSI cards, can people recommend a good SCSI RAID controller
>that works well in Linux? This is for an IBM Intellistation 1.7 XEON.
>It seems like Adam is running RAID in some of his IBM's Netstations?
IBM IPS. (ServeRAID III)
>To save TheBS a little typing, I'm well aware of 3Ware RAID controllers,
>I own one at home. I looking for a RAID controller that uses SCSI HDDs
>this time since I already own all the SCSI HDDs I need for this PC. :-)
Those IDE RAID SCSI-Emulators sell for what? > $200. To me that just
seems silly. People whine about using IDE instead of SCSI for the
cost?! One can get a great SCSI controller for ~$70 and the highest end
drives (15,000RPM big cache IBM) of 18Gb can be had for ~$300. Lower end
drives can be found much cheaper. And I'll still pit a good SCSI box
against IDE any day. Lets take a crappy technology, because its cheaper,
sink a pile of money into it so that it *resembles* a real technology?
How does that make sense?