Re: [MLUG] Multi-disk controller

[Ian Scott <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Rages wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Mark Haidekker wrote:
> 
>>I remember that 3ware has their interesting escalade series of controllers up 
>>to 8 ports. I have no experience with those (except an Escalade 2-port 
>>running smoothly since 2 years with RH 7.1), but I know that those guys are 
>>highly Linux-friendly.
>>
>>Mark
> 
> 
> Well, it's going to be 3ware (>$500) or Highpoint "RocketRAID 404"
> ($99)
> 
> Money, money, money...

I recommend 3ware as well.  At my old job I set up a bunch of machines 
with them and we haven't had a spot of trouble.  The only problems we 
had were a couple drives going south, and the 3wares took it in stride.

Is the Highpoint RocketRAID a real hardware RAID controller?  From the 
looks of it, it is not.  It also does 8 drives on 4 IDE channels, 
lowering performance.  3wares have always used just one drive per 
channel, and for good reason.

Ian

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