Re: [SLE] 3ware sata controllers info
From: Greg Freemyer (greg.freemyer_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:32:48 -0500 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:23:03 -0600, Jack Malone wrote:
> I have had several of the 3 ware ide raid controlles in my machines over
> the past few years but never have used one of the sata raid controllers.
> I'm thinking that I'm having a speed problem with ide 3ware raid an want to
> try out the sata version. I have seen that several people have had problems
> with sata an want to make sure that if I install one an use it as the boot
> device that I want run into any problems. I plan to use the Escalade
> 9500S-8 Storage controller (RAID). Thanks for any info on this one. If this
> is not a good controller an can you recommend one that your using with good
> drifve speed. Our server here is has asus k8v 64 bit mother board with
> 3200 amd cpu in it. I have about 26 or so computers logging onto this
> server. Since our accounting software upgrade (accpac) we have been seeing
> some slow downs in accessing it over the network, an from what I can see it
> not a network/bandwidth issue nor a ram problem so im thinking it might be
> the ide harddrives an filesystem. also seem to have a slow backup backing
> up to dlt vs80 tape drive. Before the upgrade we were not experiencing this
> slowness in using accpac on same machine. Thanks.
>
> jack malone
> Network Administrator
> EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
> dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES
> 903-595-3444
> http://www.horizonind.com
>
I'm sure you know the 3ware ide RAID cards masqarade as SCSI cards.
One consequence of this is they are not impacted by potential bugs in
the IDE driver code.
I believe the 3ware SATA RAID cards also masqarade as SCSI cards. In
this case they will not impacted by bugs in the SATA (libata) driver
code.
I have not yet tried the 3ware SATA cards, but I read every message I
see about 3ware and I have read nothing negative about there SATA
cards.
FYI: There is doc on the 3ware site that talks about the fastest
config. of 3ware SATA.
For tech. articles see: http://www.3ware.com/products/techlibrary.asp
and in particular get http://www.3ware.com/linuxbenchmarks.htm (you
will have to register).
Greg
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