On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:23:03 -0600, Jack Malone wrote:
I have had several of the 3 ware ide raid controlles in my machines over the past few years but never have used one of the sata raid controllers. I'm thinking that I'm having a speed problem with ide 3ware raid an want to try out the sata version. I have seen that several people have had problems with sata an want to make sure that if I install one an use it as the boot device that I want run into any problems. I plan to use the Escalade 9500S-8 Storage controller (RAID). Thanks for any info on this one. If this is not a good controller an can you recommend one that your using with good drifve speed. Our server here is has asus k8v 64 bit mother board with 3200 amd cpu in it. I have about 26 or so computers logging onto this server. Since our accounting software upgrade (accpac) we have been seeing some slow downs in accessing it over the network, an from what I can see it not a network/bandwidth issue nor a ram problem so im thinking it might be the ide harddrives an filesystem. also seem to have a slow backup backing up to dlt vs80 tape drive. Before the upgrade we were not experiencing this slowness in using accpac on same machine. Thanks.
jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com
I'm sure you know the 3ware ide RAID cards masqarade as SCSI cards. One consequence of this is they are not impacted by potential bugs in the IDE driver code. I believe the 3ware SATA RAID cards also masqarade as SCSI cards. In this case they will not impacted by bugs in the SATA (libata) driver code. I have not yet tried the 3ware SATA cards, but I read every message I see about 3ware and I have read nothing negative about there SATA cards. FYI: There is doc on the 3ware site that talks about the fastest config. of 3ware SATA. For tech. articles see: http://www.3ware.com/products/techlibrary.asp and in particular get http://www.3ware.com/linuxbenchmarks.htm (you will have to register). Greg -- Greg Freemyer