RAID card

[Tom Shafron]

Thanks for the feedback... getting some good feedback
on private emails too so unless someone has something
bad to say about this config I think you all just
helped me make my decision.  Thanks!

-Tom

--- Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:08:23AM -0700, Tom
> Shafron wrote:
> > Hi all.  I'm looking to purchase a SATA RAID card
> to
> > do Raid 10 (not 01).  It should handle 12 hard
> drives.
> > 
> > System:
> > 5.3 Release AMD64
> > Tyan K8S Pro (2882)
> > 2x246 opteron
> > 
> > I'm looking at the 3ware 9500S-12MI
> >
> (http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata9000.asp).
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience with that card on
> the
> > AMD64?  Any other cards you'd recommend that work
> well
> > with AMD64 (it's gotta support RAID 10 though...)?
> 
> I have no direct experience with this 3Ware model,
> but I built some NAS
> servers with the 8-port version and this Tyan board.
> 
> They worked nicely with a 64-bit system (and still
> do).
> 
> -- 
> Francois Tigeot
> 

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