Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-29 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 18-Mar-2010 at 09:37:32 +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-19 Thread Andy Wodfer
Thanks for all your feedback. The problem occurs in the RAID controller BIOS (before we even boot or get to the OS install). Thanks to John for confirming these cards do work above 2TB. I will look into upgrading the firmware (on these brand new cards). Perhaps it's just the current firmware

Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. We are going to use

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Law
On Thu, March 18, 2010 8:37 am, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Is ZFS not an option? I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system and it works great, but here the requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and so on. Cheers, Andreas

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Is ZFS not an option? I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system and it works great, but

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives).

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Konference
Hi and what about Areca? Natively supported via arcmsr driver. For SATA II http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm (ARC-1230, ARC-1260) or http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm On one installation I have successfully set up RAID5 with 8x 1TB SATA II drives on ARC-1220, approx 6.5TB

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:37 AM 3/18/2010, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:37:32 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we