I second Herman. I have 3 different 3ware cards and I have even swapped out the cards from a 7450 to a pair of 7000-2. No problems and very good performance.
Just go buy yourself a 3Ware 7000-2 if you only intend to use RAID1... it'l run you about $125 on the net. If you intend to expand beyond two disks and eventually use RAID5 or RAID10 (0+1) then you should look at the 7500-4 or 7500-8. The cards represent themselves as a SCSI devices and are quite reliable. I've got about 10 systems running everything from NFS servers to near-line backup systems.
- Herman
Berge, Harry ten wrote:
We use a Solair DATAMAN IDE RAID solution. The connection to your system is (LVD)SCSI, the disks are IDE. You can configure it for RAID1-5.
Regards Harry
-----Original Message----- From: Alexandr Malusek [SMTP:Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:25 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Which IDE RAID?
Hi,
Could you recommend me a reliable HW IDE RAID 0,1? (It can also be RAID 5 but since we have just 2 x 120 GB IDE HD we can't use RAID 5 effectively right now.)
Files must be accessible from both SuSE Linux and Windows XP thus software RAID can't be used. (At least I don't know about a SW RAID which works under both systems). Both operating systems will be booted from an internal HD, not from the RAID which will contain data only.
I'm thinking about solutions like Promise FastTrak SX4000 or TX2000 but I've heard there are reliability problems with IDE RAIDs. Local PC resellers have no idea what to recommend.
The machine runs SuSE Linux but video must be captured and processed under MS-Windows since we use the DV StormSE card and Canopus supports MS-Windows only. (It makes me angry but there is nothing I can do about it.)
-- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com
participants (1)
-
Greg Freemyer