Re: drive controller Q?
On 9/14/22 15:23, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:40:10 -0400
gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
Does anyone have experience with this controller card?
https://www.newegg.com/p/14G-04YB-00003?Item=9SIB2XHHUE3880
Gene, I don't know why you think you need 16 SATA ports. Also, this
card ships from China, and 3 to 31 days shipping may be optimistic.
I can tell you I have done very well with this two port card and the
four SATA ports already on board my motherboard.
https://www.newegg.com/syba-model-si-pex40148-pci-express-to-sata-card/p/14G-009S-00017?Item=14G-009S-00017
Or you may prefer the four port version.
I also recommend you use the software RAID built in to the Linux kernel.
Hardware RAID tends to be proprietary, which means you are stuck with
that line of card should your card die on you. And Murphy help you
getting updates if it's buggy.
There's echo in here Charles. Proprietary is the last thing I need. A
lesson I learned the
hard way back in scsi days. We had idiots with an EE trying to design
those who didn't
have transmission lines in their vocabulary, wouldn't know what they
were looking at
on the o'scope if I showed them.
Software raid is working fine here. Despite udev playing 52 pickup
discovering drives,
md manages to sort them out and assemble a raid 10 at boot time. Every time.
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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