Zitat von Jure Pe_ar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:50:56 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If you want the benefits of host independant RAID and cheap SATA disks you > > may have a look at this one : > > http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/product/pci/rz_sata_8/8586rz_e.htm > > I'm actually very afraif of all those cards with plenty of cache and no > battery backup for it. It has been proven (on certain notebook disks iirc) > that even 2mb cache on disks themselves if not flushed properly on shutdown > can be a disaster for the filesystem. Don't want to expirience what happens > if you manage to create a 128mb large "hole" in your data. That's why you > see write caching disabled everywhere by default. And write caching is what > we in the mail business want the most ... > > 3ware has gotten the right idea recently and started offering batery backup > units for their cards. I'm trying to get one to test ...
Than you are at the higher end (not SATA) : http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/product/pci/rzu320/8524rz_e.htm > Because of that (and because I already have FC infrastructure in place) I'm > mostly interested in standalone disk enclosures doing their own raid with > cheap sata drives and big caches with batteries. Be aware that you must disable the *internal* cache of the SATA drives ... Maybe http://www.infortrend.com is more interesting for you in this case. Regards Andreas --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
