On Monday 22 September 2003 17:28, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Those of you with experience using 3WARE controllers, please be so > kind as to inform the list members (and me in particular) about your > impressions. > > Please include the 3WARE controller model, disk drives used & count, > RAID level, main board and O/S version. Would you consider putting up > a 2TB 3WARE raid array as a sites primary server or would you go > SCSI? Well I've got PLENTY of firsthand experience with this. I work for Pogo Linux, and our main selling servers are our 3ware based storage servers. Anywhere from 4 IDE disks, up to 16 SATA disks. Of course, we're still limited by the 2TB Linux problem, so our 16 SATA server is 8 disks each on 2 adapters. All our information can be gleaned from http://www.pogolinux.com/storage/ 1u servers use a 3ware 7506-4LP (8506-4LP for SATA), 2u servers use 7506-8 (8506-12 for SATA), and 3u servers use the same. We also have a lot of 7505-4, 7505-8 systems out there, running strong. We primarily use Maxtor harddrives for these array units, with the exception of SATA, where Western Digital is our choice, due to capacity and SATA 1.1 compliance. We've used RHL 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9 with our 3ware products, even some with SuSE (I forget exact releases. I tend to forget anything associated w/ SuSE as soon as possible). Because of cost, I'd chose a 3ware system anyday. 2TB raid SCSI is going to be ungodly expensive, where a 3ware 2tb system w/ dual Xeon 2.4ghz CPUs comes in around 8K~. Anywho, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about 3ware systems. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
