Hi again,
We had this discution last year. Now I have time to reinstall the system...
and to order the raid controller.
I will buy one of these:
3WARE 9500S-4 4HD RAID
3WARE 8506- 4 4HD RAID.
OS will be Suse 9.1(maybe 10... but not 100%)
I have 4 SATA HDD's and want to build a 10 Raid.
According to some benchmarks the 8506 is faster then the 9500S.
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=9500s4lp&page=8
Now, I don't know which one should I buy. The price difference is 30 EURO
more for the 9500.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Andy.
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From: "Black, Alain" <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org>
To: <Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com>; "Andy" <frum(a)ar-sd.net>
Cc: <suse-amd64(a)suse.com>; <suse-ia64(a)suse.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
Same here. Lspci shows it as " 01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc
3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)"
We are also running the 3dm software to monitor the card/RAID set.
-Alain.
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From: Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com [mailto:Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:42 AM
To: Andy
Cc: Black, Alain; suse-amd64(a)suse.com; suse-ia64(a)suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
I've got one of the 8506 series SATA RAID controllers running the stock
3w-xxxx driver with no problems so far - had more problems finding an
XP64
driver for it....
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
10300 Town Park Dr.
Houston, Texas 77072
832-351-8978
kevin_gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com
"Andy"
<frum(a)ar-sd.net>
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10/18/2005 02:57 "Black, Alain"
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Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid
Controller for 64 bit?
>> We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no
>> problems with them.
I supose you mean the 3ware 9500S series controllers.
I couldn't find any drivers for suse 9x 64 for the 8506 series.
Andy.
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From: "Black, Alain" <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org>
To: <suse-amd64(a)suse.com>; <suse-ia64(a)suse.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:24 PM
Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Malone [mailto:jmalone@horizonind.com]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:18 AM
To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com; suse-ia64(a)suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
At 04:06 AM 10/17/2005, Andy wrote:
>Hi to all,
>
>We have a Fujitsu Siemens Econel 200 Server. 2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 2x
>SATA HDD. Suse 9.1 64 Prof is installed.
>
>At the moment we are using a software raid, but we want to buy 2
>more HDD's and implement a 0+1 or 1+0 RAID.
>I looked over and over about raid controllers, have found from 120
>EURO's to 1000 EURO's but there seems to be a little problematic
>the Suse 64 driver.
>
>A very convenient driver would be the
>Promise FastTrack S150 TX4 or
>SX4 controller
>but I still don't know if the drivers are quite functional.
>
>The tx4 seems faster as the sx4 but has no 64 driver.
>
>We had in the past some problems with hardware raid controller on suse.
>
>Does anyone uses some good raid controllers and could give me some
>informations?
>
>I have been using 3ware sata raid on two different machines here at
>work with amd 64 cpu's in them with no problem. suse has the 3ware
>driver built in for years now. been using 3ware raid cards for years
>also with no problems. now I am not sure what they cost in
>EURO's since im in the US.
jack
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We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no
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-Alain
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