[Gllug] Cheap 'real' IDE raid controller

[Huw Lynes]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:07:25 +0100
"Andy Farnsworth" <farnsaw at stonedoor.com> wrote:

>   You can also get the 3ware Serial ATA raid controllers if you are
> buying new drives I might recommend those as I have recently been
> converted to Serial ATA.  Also, Tom's Hardware has a great review of the
> new SATA RAID backplane solutions out there.  See
> http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/20040426/index.html for the review.
> 
I'd be careful of SATA RAID at the moment. All the evals we've done so far
have had dreadful problems. Mostly down to the fact that a lot of the SATA
drives don't report problems properly so that RAID controllers have a real
problem isolating the host from hardware problems. e.g. a disk dies and the
filesystem goes off-line because the host picks up I/O errors.

The engineers I've spoken to say give it another twelve months for the Disk
manufacturers to sort out their firmware.


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