On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:16 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
That's alright, the server is not mission critical - it is merely for storage of backups.
The question is rather if you have the experience how to handle a drive replacement of a software raid. If you do I would just give it a try.
I have had to do it once. The notes are somewhere in a deep dark corner of my notebook's hard disc... :-)
That's the part I'm worried about. If the hardware choices were mine, it would have been an Athlon with a 3ware card...
I have not used a 3ware card yet, but seen mostly approving reviews. Is it possible to ask your vendor if he can explain the miserable write throughput of the LSI card?
I don't think I have ever read a disapproving review of 3ware cards. As for the LSI card, it did work quite a bit faster before I added the fourth drive, but that was under Win2k3 server, and I didn't set that one up - no idea how long it took to finish.
Thanks Hans
I see a lot of people talking about SATA RAID cards lately. So I will chime in. First of I am in no affiliation with this company or anyone that deals with them. If you want reliable fast performance and want to go the cheap SATA route then I would suggest getting a Areca card. http://www.areca.com.tw/index/html/ The performance appears to be almost double that of any other SATA RAID card. They offer up to a 24 port card as well as PCI-E support. They have full SuSe driver support for 9.0 to 9.3 32bit and 64bit. Hope this help someone. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com