raid controller cards

Which RAID controller cards have an onboard piezo or similar speaker
that sounds an alarm whenever a drive fails? (drive being member of a
redundant array) Mainly I am looking for recommendations for RAID
data security rather than server uptime. Ones I know of:

HighPoint RocketRaid 1540: don't recommend for data security
Intel SRCS14L: will try next...
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/...01_SRCS14L.pdf

Also, are there any motherboards with raid controllers that use an
onboard alarm? For example, in Toms Hardware there is this list:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherb...ra_400-33.html
but the A7N8X Deluxe did no make use of the piezo tweeter when I
unplugged a drive belonging to RAID 1 on the Sil3112 SATARAID
controller.

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side notes:

I seem to be swimming upstream with this. For the home user, I
recommend a backup routine onto an external drive or other media. I
am guilty of wanting to be lazy. A quote from comp.arch.storage FAQ
is left ringing in my ears (along with other newsgroup posts I've been
reading):

"RAID vendors come and go quickly, OEM each other's equipment, change
names, and other activities that seem aimed at simply obscuring the
market."

According to HighPoint, the firmware on my Maxtor drives was newer
than the drives they had... the reason the controller was unable to
rebuild mirroring after I purposely pulled the sata cable and wrote to
the RAID 1. I offered to send in the controller and the drives in
exchange for something guaranteed to work. HighPoint said they were
not allowed to give out the drives they use.
I bought a pair of Western Digital drives to experiment, but had a
different problem with those.

I have to say... HighPoint customer service was EXCELLENT. They
didn't give me crap like ASUS did. I have burned out two SIL 3112r
controllers on the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe boards. The SATALink/SATARaid
email and *.wav alarm notification utility did not even know the
Maxtor drives exist (yes, even with the raid drive happily residing in
Windows Explorer), and no amount of driver upgrade could help it.

AFAIK:
- RAID info is stored on the drives and is in a format proprietary to
the controller's manufacturer.
- If you want to rebuild a mirror, you are better off copying the
data** (using your OS) to a spare disk and then creating an empty
mirrored array all over again. **(a drive with data, not a drive with
Windows installed, as is my case)

Spacey

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(Spacey Spade) wrote in message . com...
Which RAID controller cards have an onboard piezo or similar speaker
that sounds an alarm whenever a drive fails? (drive being member of a
redundant array) Mainly I am looking for recommendations for RAID
data security rather than server uptime. Ones I know of:


FWIW, I've seen several Dell PERCs go by with an onboard speaker.