On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:06:32PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: > Hi! > > I know this is a little bit offtopic, but i couldn't think of any other > place where i can get uninfluenced first hand information on these > controllers :) > > I've read about and experienced data loss/system lockup with older 3ware > controllers, but the 3ware Escalade 7xxx (i'm especially interested in the > 7850) sounds too good to ignore it (8 channels, 8 drives, raid 0/1/5/10, > drive-side ide bus, system-side scsi bus). I have been using the series 5xxx on rpmfind.net and fr.rpmfind.net for 2 years now (but in JBOD mode, no RAID). It's the best decision I did hardware wise on the rpmfind boxes IMHO. > Does anybody use Escalade 7xxx in production systems? How does it perform? > If it's not any good, do you know any other IDE Raid controllers with > similiar specs like the 3ware? I just migrated the speakeasy rpmfind.net mirror to this configuration (7xxx + RAID 5) it had been running for one week now. I got a bug it it wasn't looking like related to 3Ware but rather an ext3/TUX interraction bug. Oh, while we are in the nearly-religious-hardware-feeling-dept, I only use Maxtor 5400 rpms drives. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
