Re: Best RAID controller for RHEL

[Wolfgang <wolfgang rpi net au>]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:57, Tommy Davis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to receive a number of new servers built upon Intels' new serverboard 
> (Jarrell SE7520JR2), and would like to hear recommendations for good raid 
> controllers. We only use raid 1.
> 
> A good raidcontroller would mean:
> 	1. mature driver
> 	2. commandline based management (primarily for checking raid status)
> 	3. Supported in RHEL3
> 
> I've got a choice between
> 
> 1. Adaptec SCSI RAID Card 2130SLP
> http://raid.adaptec.com/ASR-2130S.html
> 
> or
> 
> 2. Intel SRCZCRX SCSI RAID, 128 MB, Zero Channel
> http://cache-www-o.intel.com/cd/00/00/18/33/183364_183364.pdf
> 
> 
> I'm not keen on the Intel controller, as very few people seems to use it and 
> intels driver support is not the best. The adaptec seems to have better driver 
> support, but I'm unsure about how stable their driver is and especially if I can 
> monitor raid status from scripts.
> 
> The older Adaptec boards who used the dpt_i2o driver had excellent performance 
> and good management utilities, but the utilities doesn't work on recent Adaptec 
> controllers.
> 
> Has anyone got experience with the above controllers, or other recommendations?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I run an Adaptec 2200S in Raid 1. Runs very well, and the monitoring
utilities from adaptec work great too.. And the performance is also very
good.

Wolf