Consensus?...

Consensus?...

[Bob Hillegas]

I will be setting up a raided system early next year once kernel 2.6 is
stable.

Is there any consensus as to which scsi adapter AND non-scsi adapter
will be preferred?

Thanks, BobH
-- 
Bob Hillegas <bobhillegas@houston.rr.com>

RE: Consensus?...

[Rechenberg, Andrew]

We've had excellent luck with the Adaptec 39160's for our Linux RAID
system.  We're running a 52-disk  software RAID10 array with (4) 39160's
and have had no issue (knock wood) in the 6 months that it has been in
production.

I cannot comment on non-SCSI controllers as I have not used any with
Linux RAID.

HTH,
Andy. 

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hillegas [mailto:bobhillegas@houston.rr.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:53 PM
> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> 
> I will be setting up a raided system early next year once 
> kernel 2.6 is stable.
> 
> Is there any consensus as to which scsi adapter AND non-scsi 
> adapter will be preferred?
> 
> Thanks, BobH
> --
> Bob Hillegas <bobhillegas@houston.rr.com>
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RE: Consensus?...

[Dhaval Patel]

I am using ide array with the 3ware 7500 ide raid card. Its been stable. We did have
initial problems due to a faulty motherboard. But once we swapped that out things have
been smooth. 

"Rechenberg, Andrew" <ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com> said:

> We've had excellent luck with the Adaptec 39160's for our Linux RAID
> system.  We're running a 52-disk  software RAID10 array with (4) 39160's
> and have had no issue (knock wood) in the 6 months that it has been in
> production.
> 
> I cannot comment on non-SCSI controllers as I have not used any with
> Linux RAID.
> 
> HTH,
> Andy. 
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Hillegas [mailto:bobhillegas@houston.rr.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:53 PM
> > To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> > 
> > I will be setting up a raided system early next year once 
> > kernel 2.6 is stable.
> > 
> > Is there any consensus as to which scsi adapter AND non-scsi 
> > adapter will be preferred?
> > 
> > Thanks, BobH
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> > Bob Hillegas <bobhillegas@houston.rr.com>
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Re: Consensus?...

[Peter L. Ashford]

On 27 Aug 2003, Bob Hillegas wrote:

> I will be setting up a raided system early next year once kernel 2.6 is
> stable.
>
> Is there any consensus as to which scsi adapter AND non-scsi adapter
> will be preferred?

I have used many of the 3Ware 7000/7500 series IDE RAID controllers.  They
are quite stable.  One of my customers had never-ending problems with
their Adaptec 2400A controllers, until they switched to 3Ware.

One caveat to this is the disks.  I used Western Digital disks in many of
the systems I've built.  On those systems AND ONLY THOSE SYSTEMS, I'm
getting a disk failure rate of 1%-2% per month.  This is with disks that
have the updated firmware.

When the WD diagnostic ('dlgdiag') is run on the disk, problems are
normally found, and repaired.  The bad news is that it takes time to
replace the disk, and run the diagnostic.

I have seen NO significant problems with IBM/Hitachi or Maxtor disks.  I
haven't tried using Seagate disks in an IDE array.

				Peter Ashford