From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Rees" Subject: Re: experiences with 3Ware 6400 3W-6400? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:06:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1908.66.75.244.69.1056697569.squirrel@www.greenhydrant.com> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030626174603.03bacec0@mail.harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030626174603.03bacec0@mail.harddata.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Maurice Hilarius said: >>Rev. Jeffrey Paul said: >> > >> > I'm thinking of buying one of these for a production server that I'm >> > setting up. Has anyone had any experiences with these on linux, good >> > or bad? > > Why would you buy a 2 year old, nearly unsupported card? > ?Heck I can sell you 8 port 3W-7810 cards for under $300 > And they work really well in software RAID. I was going to mention the same thing in my post, but forgot. I didn't think that you could buy the 6400 new anymore, so where are you getting them from? The 7500 runs about $250 which is a bit expensive for real low-budget servers. -Dave