[SunHELP] IDE RAID?

[Shawn Wallbridge]

The Promise cards SUCK!!!!

I have half a dozen 3ware IDE RAID cards and they are great. We have ~3TB on
3Ware cards and I have NEVER had a problem. I am running both Win2K and
Linux on them.

The Promise cards do RAID in the drivers, so they are more Software than
Hardware RAID (they do have a new line out that is true hardware raid). The
3Ware cards and the higher end Adaptec cards do real Hardware RAID. Their is
a big difference.

shawn


-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of gjyoung at cfl.rr.com
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:06 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] IDE RAID?


FWIW, I have had lousy luck with the IDE raid devices, but I have never used
the SCSI to IDE raid devices, but that is just adding another layoer of what
can go wrong so I think that it would still be junk.  I tored the "promise"
line of IDE raid and they stunk, they stunk bad.

Also have you considered just a software RAID with DiskSuite and 2 SCSI
cards
instead of a hardware raid?  Would probably be cheaper and more redundant
:).

Gil

Original Message:
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From: Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:36:53 -0600
To: geeks at mrbill.net, rescue at mrbill.net, sunhelp at mrbill.net
Subject: [SunHELP] IDE RAID?


I have a need of some sort of hardware RAID to replace a dual-disk
Solstice setup on a machine at OnRamp (who hosts sunhelp.org).

First - anybody had experience with IDE-to-SCSI RAID setups?  If so,
recommendations?

Second - anybody got any sort of external hardware RAID setup (with at
least 9G) that they'll sell cheap?  Needs to hook to the SCSI port on
the back of an Ultra 2. 8-)

Thanks.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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