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Suggest a SATA controller?

TeeJayHoward

TeeJayHoward

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I'm looking for a SATA controller. It has to meet the following requirements:

1) PCI, PCI-X (With PCI compatibility), or PCIe
2) 6+ ports
3) Individual LED connectors for each SATA drive (Needs to work with this.)

Prefered:

1) Linux support
2) Cables included
3) Under $250
4) RAID 5 or 6 support

Anyone?
 
Well, the card I bought *almost* meets this - sort of. Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 is a PCI-X card with 8 ports and individual LED connectors. It has fine Windows support, and PIO support is in the latest 2.6.14 kernel, but I've had a headache like no other getting it going - mostly, I think, because I started trying before said support appeared. If you can run the BIOS on it before the kernel gets its say (easy, if you don't have any other storage controllers) then you should be set. I got it for around $110, with cables. It supports raid 5 and 6 in software under Linux, and neither under Windows.

In hardware raid, the Highpoint 2320 may fit your specs, but I can't tell about the individual LED thing. The 2220 does, though, and wouldn't be a bad choice. Sata support on Linux page says fakeraid, but that's not bad considering the write speeds one gets to these.

 
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