Questions about 3Ware 7506 controller

2004-02-15 Thread Alvin Gunkel
I'm running 4.7 Release on a colocated system without access to bios/console. This system currently has a Highpoint RocketRaid 100 controller driving four WD 60gb (WD600JB, 8mb cache) drives in a raid 0+1 config. I had a drive fail and the controller kept the system up and functioning, but

Re: Questions about 3Ware 7506 controller

2004-02-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Alvin Gunkel, you wrote. AG -Raid 10 or 5? Compared to the 0+1 I have now, 10 would be a nice AG improvement as loss of the one drive effectively took out two of my AG drives. I'm not so sure whether this is entirely true. The RAID 10 thing always seemed to be more of a marketing scam than