Lists @ Apted Technologies Inc. wrote:
Used them, love them, swear by them. Any system I work on that has ATA RAID has 3ware inside or will in the next few weeks.after a bad experience with a promise card under rh8.0, my employer is very hesitant about trying another ata-raid card out under linux. i found out about the 3ware cards and support looks very promising. rh8.0 has built in support, its listed as compatible on redhat site, and there is even a daemon utility you can use to monitor the card. i was just wondering if anyone here has dealt with, heard of, likes, dislikes or just has any type of input on this family of cards that they would like to explain. i need to convince my boss to try another card. if he had his way, it would be windows boxes all the way. our requirements are ata-raid, level 5, no less than four channels, cache size isn't a big issue, and redhat 8.0 compatible (after hours of arguing, he won't budge on the release version). im basically just searching here folks. any ideas, directions, suggestions, or constructive critizism would be most appreciated.
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They're not quite as good as a true SCSI hardware RAID for mega-intensive server profiles (3ware cards tend to degrade rather ungracefully when they're pushed past their limits), but for a workstation they simply cannot be beat. An idea for a selling point: 3wares are hardware RAID as well, which will free up some previously used CPU time, staving off CPU upgrades. (A little, anyway)
- Rich 'Forge' Mingin
