[plug] Adaptec ATA/100 RAID 1200A

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, quoth Senectus .:

> Incidentally, I'm after a PATA raid card, not sata...

If you want real hardware RAID, not software RAID, be prepared to spend
lots for it.

My choice would be to get a 3ware (pretty sure they still do PATA) which
are nice and fast, and well supported under Linux by the company
themselves.

The other option is Linux software RAID, which is fast enough for most
purposes, and has the handy added bonus that you're not relying on an
expensive piece of hardware, which if it breaks will require you to locate
another identical expensive piece of hardware to be able to recover your
data - and you'll also need a copy of all the settings (block size etc) to
put back into the new card.

 - Matt