[nylug-talk] ATA RAID experience

[Michael Bacarella]

> I like the SIIG for its 5 year warranty but I don't
> know if it was the card that caused me some problems
> in a test linux box and never bothered to check.  The
> 3ware its fully supported under the current Linux
> kernel (but the monitoring utility is not).

The monitoring utility is supported, it's just closed source
and extremely crappy. :)

> I would like to hear from someone who has had used it
> - any of them- and tell me about their experience on
> reliability and the like.  I am using the SIIG at work
> with a windows server and it works well (its not under
> a heave load and I know its just basic software but I
> like the fact that is not an overload on the server
> OS)

We've had some good reliability with 3ware controllers under
Linux, specifically the Escalade 7000 series.

On one server a 3ware controller manages a 320GB 6 disk
RAID configured RAID-5 with no trouble, on another it
manages a 36GB 2 disk RAID-1.  Both of these servers have
been running for more than a year in high volume production
environments.

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