On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:28, Nathan E Norman wrote: > [1] I hear 3ware doesn't suck, but I've never used one.
>From what I read in a review in c't magazine, 3ware has nice drivers included in the standard kernel and good performance when it comes to RAID 0 or 1. The review also had a look at RAID 5 performance and every single IDE controller sucked royally (they tested 3ware, Adaptec, LSI, Promise, Dawicontrol and others), delivering about the performance of a single laptop drive. The con of using a 3ware controller is that those things aren't on the cheap side. In Germany you pay about EUR 340 to 350 for a 4-port controller because you pay for the RAID 5 functionality. I haven't checked the prices for the 2 port cards, those might be affordable since they only need support for RAID 0 and 1 which is rather simple to implement. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
