[geeks] 3ware Escalade 9500

[Nick B]

The only problems I know of with the 9500 series involve multiple disk
failures due to bad backplanes.  They're a bit finicky about a few things,
and the drivers are not great, but they generally work.  YMMV
Nick

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> On 12/07/11 10:23, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know if I can use multiple 3ware Escalade 9500-series RAID
>>> controllers in a single machine?  Can you span arrays across them?
>>>
>>
>> Honestly?  I wouldn't use 3Ware at all.  (But if you want to try it, I
>> have a spare 9500S you can have for cost of shipping.)
>>
>> Personally, I'd rip out the 3Ware and drop in some nice LSI Logic
>> hardware.
>>
>
> I've had no end of problems with LSI Logic controllers.
>
> They *definitely* don't work multiple controllers to a machine.
>
> How big is that spare 9500?
>
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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