From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Moore Subject: Re: 3Ware on 64bit Linux. Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:25:53 -0700 Message-ID: <42A94E91.80009@nsr500.net> References: <602f2f2b050608100938ddad81@mail.gmail.com> <200506081156.31051.hjm@tacgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200506081156.31051.hjm@tacgi.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Harry Mangalam wrote: > Then problems with the disks - the JD series are particularly ill suited to > RAID5 apparently because of the BIOS algorithms and WD will replace them for > more expensive SD series disks without complaint but the replacement web form > is quite confusing and this delayed things even longer (they replaced only > SOME of the disks with SD and some of them with more JDs). This was > admittedly my fault, but the WD support person had a similarly difficult time > with the form. The SD's are 100% duty cycle, 24x7, 1M hour MTBF commercial SATA II drives, whereas the JD's are SATA I with a "desktop" rating and a 'designed for Microsoft Windows' cert. Why WD would trade a commercial drive for a desktop drive? Besides that I've used 3Ware controllers since the 6400 and have had zero problems with anything. The gui tool is nice but not suited to production use. t.