5TB raid

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:08 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:55:00AM -0400, teddy wrote:
> > Need to make a 5TB raid.
> > I could go with a canned solution. But that would be no fun.
> > 
> > I was thinking about
> > 
> > One HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 PCI Express SATA II card (2 SAS connectors)
> > Two 4 bay SATA2 enclosures with hotswap drive.
> > EIGHT WD Caviar 1TB (Green) SATA drives not listed (Hitachi and Sumsung 
> > listed)
> 
> As far as I can tell, that card is NOT supported by linux.  They have
> drivers available but they contain a binary blob which to me is just not
> worth it given how many raid cards are fully supported without that.  I
> also get the impression that the 2322 is a marvell fakeraid card in
> fact.  I wouldn't want to run a 5TB raid on a fakeraid.
> 
> Check out areca or 3ware instead.

I would also recommend against Highpoint products. It seems like after a
while, they stop providing updated drivers for Linux, particularly as
the product ages. I have a Highpoint 1742 that I cannot install anything
newer than Fedora 7 on, because Highpoint's drivers won't compile under
anything 2.6.23-based.

- Julian
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