Synology uses Linux as their OS, so they work real well. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Adam Barthelemy <adam at askewview.net> wrote: > Carl, > > I have a friend using an Areca card in his BSD box that he is using for a > NAS. True hardware controller. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151031 is the > "baby" version of what he is using. > > --Adam > > > On 2014-02-27 12:45, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/20140227/170175e8/attachment.html>