[KLUG Hardware] SCSI card recommendation

[Bruce Smith]

> >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)

I'm having a hard time locating them.  Got any URL's?

> >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?

Sure, egg him on!  :-)

I'm not sure I'd put one of these in a mission critical server, but 
it's a cheap way to do hardware RAID-0 or RAID-1 at my home.  I wanted
hardware mirroring and need a lot of disk space for KLUG ISO images.

At the time I bought mine, I could buy 60GB IDE drives cheaper than 18GB
SCSI drives, so the overall cost savings was considerable for a large
amount of disk space.  Besides the 2 drive controller was only ~$100.
And it works fairly well, as long as it's plugged into a quality mobo.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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