I would like to set up a large file server, using SATA II RAID. This machine would be mainly for storage ofaudio and video, and would be accessed almost always by me, though occasionally by maybe 2 or 3 other people at most at one time. I'd like to go for somewhere around 2 TB, and would do sharing via NFS and occasionally Samba.

I've looked around for RAID controllers, and found this article on Tom's Hardware that looks interesting. I am just wondering if anyone has had any experience with one of those or any other SATA II RAID controllers? What would you recommend?

Also, what would you recommend for other hardware? I'm thinking I'd like to keep this kind of compact (well, relatively), so I was considering go with a mini-itx motherboard, maybe something around 1.5 GHz, with about 512 MB RAM. This box will probably not do much more than serve files.

Thanks for any insight.

I'm pretty in the dark about SATA RAID, but have you checked the Linux Questions Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)? That's where I usually go to find Linux-friendly hardware.

Hope that helps.

--Dane

I did take a look through the HCL, but didn't find what I was looking for. I'm looking for a controller to handle maybe 8 drives. I was just wondering if anyone here new of one they particularly liked. Thanks, though.