[TriLUG] SATA controllers and drives

[Jason Faulkner]

Now, for an opposite view...

I've been using my Silicon Image SI3112 chipset addon card with an 80
gig SATA drive for about a good year now -- never had a drop of
trouble.

Jay


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:18:55 -0500, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 18:53 -0500, ljacobs wrote:
> > What have been people's experiences with 3Ware or other SATA
> > controllers running RAID5 under CentOS or other distros? And
> > have you built arrays with 300GB or 250GB drives? How big?
> 
> 
> Hi "ljacobs",
> 
> We've tried to build multi-terabyte arrays using dual-opteron systems
> (Tyan 2885 boards) and the very latest 3ware 9500-series cards.  We've
> had nothing but trouble with two systems and and our woes are documented
> on the LKML.  I *think* we somehow got MBs that just weren't happy with
> those 3ware cards but we haven't ruled out 3ware's drivers, either
> (tried on both Fedora Core and RHEL and were unable to build
> sufficiently stable arrays to actually use them).
> 
> So if you decide to build-your-own, be careful!
> 
> Ed
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