[ML-General] hardware RAID

[Joshua Pritt]

I've had good experience with my Promise RAID controller and Promise 4
drive enclosure.

Enclosure:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/802836-REG/Promise_Technology_SUPERSWAP_4600_BEIGE_Internal_SuperSwap_4600_SAS_SATA.html

Controller:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Promise-FastTrak-S150-SX-4-SATA-RAID-5-Controller-Card-256MB/261817055986?_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20141212152715%26meid%3D806b1dd81ce74c518c631a78f60414f7%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D13%26rkt%3D28%26sd%3D271894688538

I have four 250 GB drives in there now for 750 GB but I've had those in
there for many years.  I've already had one drive fail over the years and
easily hot swapped it for another 250 GB drive and it brought it all back
up without stopping the computer at all (just like it's meant to!)

Of course if I had to start over I'd just get a Drobo so I could throw any
size hard drives at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGR8JAij0s

http://www.drobo.com/




On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:06 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

> I haven't kept up.  What do you guys recommend for SATA internal raid
> controllers?
> I have a stack of 3 in striped (raid 0?) and a stack of 2 in raid 5.  Both
> sets were configured to use software raid under Linux but the raid 5 did
> not turn out to really be mirrored drives.  Bah.
> I'm hoping that the 3 striped disks can be converted to the hardware
> controller without problems (6 terabyte.)
> The set of 2 that *should* be identical, can be made identical with dd, if
> I must before attaching them to the hardware controller.
>
> So, advice?
>
> Thanks,
> David Merchant
>
>
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