[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?