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Greetings, In looking for inexpensive JBOD and/or RAID solutions to use with ZFS, I''ve run across the recent "VTrak" SAS/SATA systems from Promise Technologies, specifically their E-class and J-class series: E310f FC-connected RAID: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=175 E310s SAS-connected RAID: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=176 J300s SAS-connected JBOD: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=163 The prices seem very reasonable as compared to Sun, HP, EMC, etc. You can buy bare...

...entos 4.3 ? I see there is a current RHEL 3 and 4 driver. Would that driver survive kernel upgrades, I'm guessing it would being modular ? (please don't tell me that 3ware is the only make to use, tw_cli is not exactly user friendly). Anyone using this - http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=RAID%20HBAs&product_id=147 Promise has never given me any joy under Linux. cheers

Hello fellow listers... I'd like to get some recommendations on a good SATA controller for use with CentOS 5.x. It should be PCI, bootable, have 4 SATA ports, have native support (no crap proprietary or manually compiled drivers), and possibly hot swap support. Any ideas? There are plenty of PCI-X and PCIe controllers that I think would work but the use for this card is in a smaller 1U

...ention: ADAPTEC SATA RAID 1420SA Serial ATA-150/Serial ATA II-300 PCI-X 4ch for 120 USD ( http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sata/entry/AAR-1420SA/ ) and PROMISE FastTrak TX4300 Serial ATA II-300 PCI 4ch for 160 USD ( http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=RAID%200/1%20HBAs&product_id=137 ) Do you have any experience any of these 2 adapters, operating as plain SATA controllers, under linux software raid? Which one would you recommend? Best regards, Alex