Here is translated piece of IDE hardware RAID discussion in ALT-linux maillist:

3Ware card (priced $200 roughly) is really hardware RAID, vendor-supported (and stable) module is already in Linux kernel. This is the best IDE-RAID card (at least ataraid-list maillist stated so) and actually the single really hardware-implemented RAID card.

On some hardware RAID solution from Fedora maillist:

MPlayer news page, post of 2004.07.23:

One of the hard drives in our project server is failing and needs to be replaced. Since it is part of a RAID1 array and performance suffers a lot when running RAID1 with different geometry drives we need either the same model as replacement or two new IDE drives.

Red these and many other opinions, I choose to go with Linux kernel-based software RAID for my current project.

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