Why not software raid? It is very unlikely that your system is CPU-bound. Plus, the ability to move the drives to new hardware is much easier than if they're tied to a specific proprietary RAID card's implementation. Thomas On Feb 27, 2014 12:46 PM, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > I find myself clueless about the state of hardware again. > > It used to be that I recommended 3ware RAID controllers because: > > 1. they had good Linux drivers built into the kernel > 2. they were reliable > 3. they had a really good management tool suite under Linux > > However, it looks like 3ware has abandoned the low-end RAID market and the > cheapest controller of theirs which I find on Newegg is ~$440. Gone are the > days of $120 2-port controllers for desktop use. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a hardware RAID controller to mirror > drives for a desktop Linux box? > > I really don't want to go back to the days of software RAID. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140227/58be32d0/attachment.html>