Roman Mamedov put forth on 4/14/2011 11:58 PM: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:55:40 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Steven Haigh put forth on 4/14/2011 8:16 AM: >> >>> That is a very nice writeup... I searched for the HighPoint Rocket 620 - >>> listed as $24.99 on NewEgg - but Australian suppliers seem to have it >>> above $100AUD. The cheapest price I found was $54AUD - and they were out >>> of stock. >> >> This is the card you should get: >> http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=536 >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124027 >> >> It's the same Syba Sil3132 based card BackBlaze uses in their 45 drive >> mdadm managed pods. >> > > Did you read the second link you posted, specifically the Feedback section? > That's one more confirmation of corruption issue we discussed in this thread. The overall Newegg rating for the Syba card you deride is 4/5 eggs across 109 reviews. If the card was as horrible as you make it out to be, the rating would be 1/5 not 4/5, and people would stop buying it. Note that the user who posted the read corruption issue referred to a single application in Windows 7 where this error occurred, TeraCopy. It's far more likely he was up against an application or driver issue than a hardware issue with the Syba card. He did not state whether a Windows Explorer copy would also cause the problem, nor xcopy, nor Robocopy, etc. BTW, did you even read the BackBlaze blog I posted? They run hundreds of this exact Syba 3132 card, with Linux, with mdraid, and have reported zero problems. And they're using a 5:1 PMP on each 3132 port. If these cards, or the 3132 were junk, as you state, surely BackBlaze would have run into problems in 2+ years of full production, no? Again, you're taking isolated incidents and assuming they are the norm, when they most certainly are not. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
