Promise Technology
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| - | Promise Technology manufactures ATA and SATA (RAID) controllers, which usually feature Promise chips for the device interface and no RAID CPU, therefore they are "soft-RAIDs". | + | Promise Technology manufactures ATA and SATA (RAID) controllers, which usually feature Promise chips for the device interface and nearly always no RAID CPU, therefore they are "soft-RAIDs" (except the higher-priced models). |
| - | + | Stay away from the Promise-based (PDCxxxxx) IDE-Controllers under Linux (and probably other Opensource OS too). They ''WILL'' cause (mostly silent) data corruption. Get a Silicon Image based controller instead ([http://geizhals.at/eu/a36191.html Dawicontrol DC-133] for example). | |
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Revision as of 02:10, 4 June 2006
Promise Technology manufactures ATA and SATA (RAID) controllers, which usually feature Promise chips for the device interface and nearly always no RAID CPU, therefore they are "soft-RAIDs" (except the higher-priced models).
Stay away from the Promise-based (PDCxxxxx) IDE-Controllers under Linux (and probably other Opensource OS too). They WILL cause (mostly silent) data corruption. Get a Silicon Image based controller instead (Dawicontrol DC-133 for example).
