Anyone know of a good motherboard with the following criteria:
- supports a quad core athalon
- will support 8+ gb of memory
- 64 bit
- has a raid controller that works natively with mint?
Thanks in advance.
Motherboard or card raid
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Re: Motherboard or card raid
Einnar. All of the major players will have a suitable AM3 MB with basic RAID 0/1 function. Gigabyte, ASUS, Asrock etc..
My suggestion though, if you want to set up a long term stable RAID 5 array, would be to buy an adaptec card and not use the on board controller.
Also be careful with what drives you want to add to the array. Do not use any drives with "Green" status. They have a bad habit of going to sleep and loosing sync with the others. A supported SATA III PCIe controller and good SATA III drives, will give you the best outcome.
Lanser
My suggestion though, if you want to set up a long term stable RAID 5 array, would be to buy an adaptec card and not use the on board controller.
Also be careful with what drives you want to add to the array. Do not use any drives with "Green" status. They have a bad habit of going to sleep and loosing sync with the others. A supported SATA III PCIe controller and good SATA III drives, will give you the best outcome.
Lanser
Re: Motherboard or card raid
I have good drives, that are non-green.
Raid 5 is the goal. I have 3 small SSD drives I'd like to use. I'd also like to be able to boot to them.
Can you recommend an Adaptec card, or specific motherboard? I have tried a few so far, and they either don't support raid 5, or linux has problems recognizing the raid setup.
Thanks Lanser.
Raid 5 is the goal. I have 3 small SSD drives I'd like to use. I'd also like to be able to boot to them.
Can you recommend an Adaptec card, or specific motherboard? I have tried a few so far, and they either don't support raid 5, or linux has problems recognizing the raid setup.
Thanks Lanser.
Re: Motherboard or card raid
I would guess that all the motherboard raid controllers (part of the BIOS) are software raid, not hardware raid, if that is what you mean by native mode..
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard- ... 156408.htm
http://superuser.com/questions/111345/m ... controller
For most home or small local LAN users, I would also question why you would be considering raid instead of a collection of sata or other hard drives, wouldn't that be just as good for a desktop OS users, especially if you pay attention to backups..
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard- ... 156408.htm
http://superuser.com/questions/111345/m ... controller
- The main purpose of raid is hard drive security, the ability to recreate the complete data even in the face of one or more hard drive failures: bound to happen sometime, but not necessarily all at the same time..
not hard drive performance
For most home or small local LAN users, I would also question why you would be considering raid instead of a collection of sata or other hard drives, wouldn't that be just as good for a desktop OS users, especially if you pay attention to backups..
Re: Motherboard or card raid
Looking for reliability rather than speed. I think using the SSDs, I have speed taken care of.
None of them are big enough by themselves to hold the OS and the files I'll be using for rendering. The 3 together are just right. If I can find a mobo, that's great. If I can't, then I'll go the card route.
Thanks.
None of them are big enough by themselves to hold the OS and the files I'll be using for rendering. The 3 together are just right. If I can find a mobo, that's great. If I can't, then I'll go the card route.
Thanks.
Re: Motherboard or card raid
Einnar. I agree with DrHu. I think by your usage description, you would get a better result by booting to one of your SSD's, using another SSD as a rendering volume and using a HDD for the storage of all of your files. I would also install a duplicate HDD to keep a mirrored copy of your file storage. And would probably use a manual tool like "beyond compare" to maintain the mirrored copy.
RAID 5 today is mostly about data security on hot swap redundant drives. I would suggest a minimum of 4 drives with one spare is the right approach for RAID 5.
In the good old, bad old days, RAID 5 was also about increasing thoughput. But with the new generation drives and SATA controllers, this is not really an issue. ( unless you are running a file server )
The reason I suggested adaptec is that they provide controllers for the commercial Linux server market and there is generally good support in the Linux community.
Re the original motherboard question. I think I would look at one of the higher spec MB from Gigabyte or Asus, with at least 5 SATA III ports and two on board controllers. eSATA is also a very useful feature.
You could run one HDD internally as your file storage and one external HDD via eSATA for your backup copy.
Lanser
RAID 5 today is mostly about data security on hot swap redundant drives. I would suggest a minimum of 4 drives with one spare is the right approach for RAID 5.
In the good old, bad old days, RAID 5 was also about increasing thoughput. But with the new generation drives and SATA controllers, this is not really an issue. ( unless you are running a file server )
The reason I suggested adaptec is that they provide controllers for the commercial Linux server market and there is generally good support in the Linux community.
Re the original motherboard question. I think I would look at one of the higher spec MB from Gigabyte or Asus, with at least 5 SATA III ports and two on board controllers. eSATA is also a very useful feature.
You could run one HDD internally as your file storage and one external HDD via eSATA for your backup copy.
Lanser