[Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

[Tony Nichols]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:11 -0700, Colin Anderson wrote:
> Just did a terabyte Raid 5 array last week with a 3ware card under CentOS.
> Plugged drives in, defined the array in the BIOS, reboot, stuck in the CD.
> Worked first try. 15 min total. I've been doing arrays for 10 years, and
> that was *by far* the easiest one I've ever done (and the largest!). I
> shudder to think of the horrible Micropolis ones I was doing in '94 - a days
> work just to get it configured and formatted.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Sanders [mailto:asterisk-biz-337 at ccp.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:33 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers
> 
> 
> For IDE raid you have many choices but AFAIK only one is a true hardware
> raid 
> card and thats 3Ware. 3Ware has good Linux support.
> 
> I wouldn't touch anything else now.
> 
> Regards,
> Lee
> 
> >
> > Another important consideration is RAID. Price/performance favors SATA
> > RAID and the selection of true hardware SATA RAID solutions on Linux is
> > small.
> >
> > Regards,
> _______________________________________________
I have had GREAT luck with the LSI sata 150-4. Two systems at near TB
(850gb)

SUSE 9.3 -10.0 and Mandriva both liked them.
-- 
Tony Nichols <tony at mail.applog.com>
Appalachian Log Structures Inc.