> For what it's worth, I'm running a 3Ware 6410 card (4 port IDE RAID-5with three 60 GB 7200 drives) on our development server, and it works flawlessly. One of the nice features is that it can support email notification of array rebuilds and drive issues/failures, so it's easy to keep on top of any changes to the drives.Maybe i should give them a try in a near future? The promise Ultratek TX8000 can hold 8 disk allthough its not as stable and fast as one could wish.
3Ware has 2, 4, 8, and 12 disk cards, so pretty much whatever you need.
>Not to mention the good performance you get from ordinary IDE drives. A no-brainer to install w/ Debian, and I'll definitely be purchasing more of these for our production servers from here on out. (But this time I'll be getting the 7500 cards that support ATA-133 drives -- should be even faster)Any benchmarks available? Does anyone have experince with these cards?
3Ware has their own benchmarks, although take them w/ a grain of salt, since they were made by the same company selling the card!
http://www.3ware.com/products/benchmarks.asp My real world tests below: # hdparm -T /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/secRemember too, I'm using an old 6410 which doesn't have their fancy RAID5 speedup technology (forgot what they call it), and I'm only using ATA-100 disks. (3 60 GB 7200 Maxtor drives).
cool- Eric