dear pluggers, Thanks for sharing your ideas and experiences on these. Again, thank you!
Jun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are several hardware IDE RAID controllers to choose from and 3Ware's > Escalade is one of them. We are using Adaptec's IDE RAID controller on our > web servers. If you want detailed analysis of controllers from various > manufacturers, I suggest you visit the site: > > http://www.storagereview.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Federico Sevilla III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [plug] OT:IDE or SCSI > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 at 17:28, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > > Well IDE is kinda useless for any serious hardware RAID. The fact is, > > most machines come equipped with only two IDE interfaces, and it's a > > complicated matter to get more on board. Usually, off-board IDE > > chipsets are much much slower than their on-motherboard counterparts > > (for reasons that should be obvious), so performance suffers greatly. > > Hardware RAID support is also quite iffy on Linux, and some motherboard > > manufacturers have buggy BIOSes to support it. > > While I am not refuting that SCSI is The Way To Go (tm) for high-end > requirements, 3ware's true hardware IDE RAID controllers are good enough. > These controllers come in four and eight port varieties, capable of doing > RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10, plus JBOD. They also support hot-swapping and > online rebuilding of degraded arrays with the 3dmd web-based front-end. > The 7xxx series of 3ware controllers does very for RAID5 because of > improved hardware vis a vis the 6xxx series that can do it albeit slower. > > In PLUG I know of two who use it (and AFAIK are happy with it), myself and > Ian Sison. > > For those interested in checking it out, <http://www.3ware.com/>. > > (Disclaimer: I do not know if this can be purchased locally. However you > can purchase it via their Singapore office. They can send the hardware by > courier.) > > > I'd use SCSI if I had the money for it... > > And so would I. But if you don't have that much money but need true > hardware RAID, the 3ware controllers come highly recommended. :) > > --> Jijo > > -- > Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. > GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at > http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
