[ale] raid hardware

[Robert L. Harris]

I'll agree.  What are you looking at building?  We use some 3Ware cards
but we only use them for raw disk supply.  The servers in question have
16 100-160Gig drives which are combined using software RAID5 to provide
a butt-load of disk for my backup server for ONSITE backups.  The RAID5
implementation by 3ware was horrible when we tested it but supposedly is
better.  I've really grown to like the software raid though, it's
extremely stable, very low impact and very easy to manage.  The best
though is that it's hardware independent.  On my home file server my
SCSI card (Adaptec hardware raid) blew out.  I couldn't replace it with
an identical card (cant find them anymore) so the data was gone...


Thus spake Chris Ricker (kaboom at gatech.edu):

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > So, I'm looking at purchasing a new box and was hoping to get input on 
> > the available raid hardware.  Monarch has the following:
> > 
> > 3Ware Escalade 8506-4LP 4-port SATA RAID PCI
> > 3Ware Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID
> > 3Ware Escalade 8506-8 Serial ATA RAID
> > High Point RocketRAID 1520 Dual Channel PCI to SATA RAID Controller
> > Intel Serial ATA (SRCS14L) RAID Controller
> > 
> > Anyone have any experience with any of these?  Any input would be 
> > appreciated.
> 
> For IDE RAID, 3Ware is the way to go. I've not used any of their SATA stuff 
> yet though....
> 
> later,
> chris
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