Recommended/Support RAID Controller?

[innovalence]

Greetings! I'm about to purchase a RAID controller for use in a server that will be running Proxmox 1.3. Do you have any recommendations? For hardware RAID, I typically run 3ware or Areca but I'm not sure if they would be supported aka drivers/kernel mods included.

What cards do you use? I'm looking for something for just two SATA-II drives in RAID1 and PCIe. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Tim

 

[tom]

Greetings! I'm about to purchase a RAID controller for use in a server that will be running Proxmox 1.3. Do you have any recommendations? For hardware RAID, I typically run 3ware or Areca but I'm not sure if they would be supported aka drivers/kernel mods included.

What cards do you use? I'm looking for something for just two SATA-II drives in RAID1 and PCIe. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Tim

use the search function of the forum and you will find some recommendations.

 

[arthurhugo]

So far, I've got good experiences with the Adaptec 5805. I've got two of them in use for SAS and SATA RAID 1 and 10 arrays. But this one whould be a little too much for just two SATA drives. I'm also looking for a cheaper RAID controller for servers that don't need that much performance. Only SATA support is necessary. Any tips are appreciated!

 

[resignation]

I've been using 3ware 9650SE's with great success. No problems at all and with the 3dm2 utility installed after the proxmox installation it performs regular disk checks and sends email notifications in case of array problems.

Been using the 4 channel version with 4x1TB disks and also 4x300GB velociraptors, both work flawlessly.

Cheers

 

[udo]

The Areca-Controller work out of the box. See http://www.proxmox.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1881#4 for performance.

Udo