Hi,
> I would suppliment this with just saying that your controller card is
> your performance,
> the only cards I've seen score well on linux, and people have
> expressed on this list for SCSI are the LSI card, for SATA, LSI, 3ware
> (now AMCC) and Areca claim good linux support and seem to work well.
> Steer full clear of Adaptec, Dell and Compaq controllers, and their
> linux support is abysmal, and the performance reflects that,
> particularly in RAID 5.
Dell has used (and rebranded) Adaptec and LSI controllers for their PERC
series, and I agree that the Adaptec controllers perform badly. As far as I
know the LSI based controllers are quite good (and some come with 256MB
battery backed cache, which is nice :-)
Sander.