Re: Sil3112 SATARaid PCI Controller Card

[Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex milivojevic org>]

Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 duke edu>:

> I may well have had a bad card, but it didn't give me confidence in 
> add-in SATA controller cards.  When I need one, I hate to say it, I 
> just use a 2 port 3ware 8006 card.  They're not cheap (relatively 
> speaking), but they're *solid*.

The trouble with using 3ware with only one disk is if you ever buy 
second disk and try to mirror, it'll tell you that it will destroy data 
on *both* drives.  I'm currently holding off creating mirror on one 
8006 because of this (more or less full 250GB drive on my home PC -- 
not easy to find some temp place for all of it).

Adaptec, on the other hand, has option to copy data from old drive to 
new drive when creating mirror.

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