Linux ATA RAID
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Mar 5 14:28:42 CST 2003
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> I had the same quandry last week, I have a server dishing out remote x
> connections, and had 30 clients conntected. With the ide drives the x
> server came to a halt. I looked at scsi and ide raid, after lots of
> reading, and looking at the budget, I settled with an ide raid
> controller from 3ware.
>
> Its a 4 channel, hardware raid controller (more than just doing the xor
> on card, like promise etc..), used 4 drives in raid 10, so I got
> performance and security and a cost of drive space. I know how 30
> connected clients, and server is working just fine.
We've had good luck with the 3Ware controllers at work. We built a
multi-TB front-end for our tape library using the 3Wares and IDE drives.
We ran into one glitch: earlier firmware revs allow 7 250 GB drives on a
controller, but not 8. As I recall, upgrading the firmware fixed the
problem.
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