Same success story here, running 3-Ware's in all of my servers and in a
few workstations too.
Just installed 8.0 on one of the workstations, driver autoloads during
install. The other machines are still running 7.2 and 7.3, no problems
installing either.
I am not using RAID 5 though, ATA disks are so inexpensive compared to
SCSI that I prefer stripe/mirror for better performance.
Monitoring and e-mail notification really work really well with these.
Recently crashed a disk, no worries at all, no losses, rebuild runs in
background. They even have hot-swap bays if you need them.
Think if you want to go for ATA RAID, 3-ware is IMHO the only option.
Cheers,
Karl
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 00:04, Forge wrote:
Lists @ Apted Technologies Inc. wrote:
>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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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.
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
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