Built around intelligent and proven MegaRAIDŽ technology, the MegaRAID SATA 150-4 is a half-size, four-port SATA RAID controller with support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and more. The MegaRAID SATA 150-4 also boasts a vast array of on-line and remote management features including on-line capacity expansion and RAID level migration to make GUI-based storage management quick and easy to use.
MegaRAID SATA 150-4 Kit - 4 Port, SATA/150, 64MB
Order #: 1504064
Features
* Four-port serial ATA RAID adapter
- Half-size PCI form factor
* 64-bit/66 MHz PCI bus
* Integrated I/O processor
* Serial ATA 150 drive mode support
* RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, and 10 supported
* Supports all major OSs
* 64 MB of integrated ECC SDRAM memory
* Supports up to 40 logical drives and 4 physical drives per adapter
* Auto resume during array reconstruction
* Background initialization for Quick RAID 5 setup
* FlexRAIDŽ:
- Online capacity expansion
- Online RAID level migration
Works pretty well. I have 4 165GB seagate drives in a raid 5 configuration.
/dev/sda1 468725888 460247228 8478660 99% /mnt/data
the instructions for upgrading the firmware were windows based using a floppy. Since this system didn't have a floppy, I had to contact tech support for a work around. They supplied a linux based firmware installer app. It did the upgrade without requiring a reboot.
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