On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, David Rees wrote:
> Maurice Hilarius said:
> >>Rev. Jeffrey Paul said:
> >> >
> >> > I'm thinking of buying one of these for a production server that I'm
> >> > setting up. Has anyone had any experiences with these on linux, good
> >> > or bad?
> >
> > Why would you buy a 2 year old, nearly unsupported card?
> > ?Heck I can sell you 8 port 3W-7810 cards for under $300
> > And they work really well in software RAID.
>
> I was going to mention the same thing in my post, but forgot. I didn't
> think that you could buy the 6400 new anymore, so where are you getting
> them from? The 7500 runs about $250 which is a bit expensive for real
> low-budget servers.
>
> -Dave
I'd done some quick searches for "3ware" on ebay, having heard good things
about their ide-raid cards. The 7xxx series are too expensive for the
project I'm working on at the moment. It's either an older card, or
software RAID1 (and, with all due respect, I don't want to use linux
software raid in -this sort- of production environment).
Are the 6xxx series really that bad? I don't care about 'nearly'
unsupported, just as long as it works. My budget for this whole project
is likely less than $500.
We're currently looking at raid1 across two 80-120GB disks for a samba
file server in an office that does a lot of graphic design.
-j
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