Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2004-01-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:03:11AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > > > 3ware give you their drivers for using with their cards ... > > 7500-2 is the cheapest 3ware cards > > 7500-4 is for 4 drives *ouchie* you went digging .. :-0 >

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2004-01-19 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:03:11AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > 3ware give you their drivers for using with their cards ... > 7500-2 is the cheapest 3ware cards > 7500-4 is for 4 drives mine came with a cd having compiled modules for redhat and suse, plus source files for comp

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2004-01-19 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:47:52AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > Karsten M. Self said: > > I've had mixed results with 3Ware, though it's arguably > > among the better ATA/IDE RAID cards. Software RAID is > > strongly recommended by several people I know, who have > > experience, though I haven't t

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
If you go raid software or hardware, compile support directly into the kernel. I also had to have enother disk to boot of my 3ware system. With two disks, as alvin says, go with software raid. Use hardware raid for a monster set. I've not found much appreciable difference in performance between my

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Debian User
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and am glad that it can be done w/ modules in

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I > am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and > am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Karsten M. Self said: > I've had mixed results with 3Ware, though it's arguably among the better > ATA/IDE RAID cards. Software RAID is strongly recommended by several > people I know, who have experience, though I haven't tried it myself. I've had good results with 3ware on the 2.4.22 or later k

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I > am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and > am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware > is the

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-16 Thread Debian User
also, I wish to use IDE drives. At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I >am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and >am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It loo