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Hello, I have a Fedora based home media server. The data is stored on a set of WD Caviar Black 2TB SATA drives on RAID 5, managed by Linux. I've been having a bit of trouble with a Marvell based Supermicro SAS controller and was wondering if an LSI based card would do better? Thank You, Erasmo.

Of course! I replaced the motherboard but not the chassis. I should have been clear about that :) Thank You.

Hi, I found the article very enlightening. I've a follow up question. Does the article apply to HD Mobile Racks as well, I assume? Meaning if I have an old HD SATA I caddy, that's been working well for many years, I should be able to drop in a new SATA III HD and experience the expected...

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Hi, I have an old Linux box I built 7+ years ago (pre multi-core technology) and I'm looking to do a major upgrade. I currently have 2x74Gig WD Raptors (first generation), for the OS/SWAP, and 5x2TB WD Caviar Black. I was thinking of going to a modern 6-Core i7-970 (LGA1366) and I want a...