Yet Another RAID Controller question

[Danielc1234]

I just got off the phone with Adaptec to find out which controller might be best for us to use with proxmox.
I was told the 6805 would be great, but only if the kernel was 2.6.39 or over, which I know we are not running. We are still on 1.6 and going to upgrade to 1.9, but I see the 1.9 is still running the 2.6.32.
Is this information correct? If that was the case I was told to go with the adaptec 5805. Does this sound right?

Also, another thought I had was, instead of running a raid 10 and all the cost involved, why not run a Solid State Drive and save the money? The speed would be pretty good I would image. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks
Daniel

 

[tom]

in our lab we have adaptec 3805, 5805, 5805Z and 6805. all works.

go for a model with 'zero-maintenance' cache protection.

 

[Danielc1234]

Tom, can you tell me which one you feel gives you the best performance out of all of them? Also, how do you feel about using Solid State Drives?