[COLUG] SATA RAID controllers for Linux

[Pat Collins]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:54:58 -0400, William Yang <wyang at gcfn.net> wrote :

> Does anyone have strong opinions or (better) experiences they'd like to 
> share about using various SATA RAID controllers with Linux?
> 
> I'm looking hard at the 3ware 9550 or the Adaptec 5405, but would be 
> interested in anyone's experiences with hardware based RAID controllers on 
> Linux systems.  I've had enough bad experiences with Highpoint to want to 
> stay away from software-based RAID systems.
> 

I have a 3ware 9650se running running 6 hot-swappable drives (5 + 1 hot
spare) on my db server and have had zero problems.  

Pat