SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

[Eric Anderson]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote:
> 
>>> For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which
>>> use the 'aac'
>>> Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details.
>>
>>
>> Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just
>> to see if you're still happy afterwards.
> 
> 
> Thats one thing I must say about 3ware that I really like.  I have been 
> using the cards for years now and have not had issues when it came to 
> swapping out  dead drives.  I havent had the opportunity to do it with 
> the ARECA yet in production to see how it works, only as a test.

Just as another note for those searching the archives, I buy nearly only 
Dell servers (1850's and 2850's these days), and I typically do RAID1 in 
them, and occasionally RAID5.  They are plenty fast to support the RAID1 
and RAID5 with the local disks, but any real high performance data 
storage I connect via Fibre channel array built as a 16 disk RAID0+1 (or 
RAID10 depending who you ask).  Changing out dead drives (or even live 
ones) has never been an issue.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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