[lug] Reliable SATA server?

Dan Ferris dan at usrsbin.com
Sun Apr 29 20:22:38 MDT 2012


To each their own, the ones I have have been complete garbage except for 
1 or 2 exceptions.  And it hasn't been driver issues.  We're talking 
complete total meltdowns of the card firmware to the point where it the 
card itself won't boot and the server hangs.

On 4/29/2012 3:43 PM, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On 04/21/2012 06:25 PM, Dan Ferris wrote:
>> So I have no respect for those 3Ware 9550s.  They ones I have are
> I only have a dozen or two of these cards, but they've been quite reliable
> for us.  We only use them with BBUs, however.  The tools and drivers for
> Linux are first-rate.  However, in any case possible, we tend to use
> software RAID because the tools are even better there.  :-)
>
> Sean
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