http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=93&familyId= 7
i was actually looking at one of these. For my simpler needs, data protection is important but there isnt lots of it so 2 x 20 gig disks mirrored is heaps. I would like to keep the uptime up, so was thinking of this solution, anybody tried one? Its for my web server with all of a 128k connection so sucky performance isnt an issue as its bugger all hits. However for another job Im thinking of elsewhere (a 2 node cluster) though it would be a disaster. 3meg a sec just wont cut it, i can get 16 meg off a second hand scsi setup for the same dosh. Steven -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:10 To: Jones, Steven Cc: 'John'; Scott; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE Hep On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:57:33AM +1300, Jones, Steven wrote: > u can get hot swap ide > > promise do one (hot swap ide), dunno how good it is mind. If you are thinking on this one -> http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=90&familyId= 6 Dont buy it! It as simple as that. 1 year ago i bought one of those bastards from promise and its slooow. Im running it as filer on a debian 3.0 system filesystem xfs and i havent been able to push it to a sustain throughput on more than 3MB/sec. This is with 8 60GB IBM deskstar 7200rpm disks in raid5. Recently a disk crashed on me and the hole array went offline allthough the manual says it should continue to function. NOT TRUE! I relplace the broken drive with a new and the promisearray began to rebuild i thought i where homesafe..... After rebuilding in 15 hours the array went offline again and nothing i did got it back?? I called localshop where i bought it nobody could help me they suggested that i contacted promise in netherlands. Story continues..... Promise in netherlands where quit helpfull but what they suggested got me pulling out my hair!!! (what i have left of it). They suggested that i deletede the array, created a new and saved it then just after saving it i had to pull out the powercord in the back so the array wouldn't initialize. I would not belive what i was hearing. Pulling out powercord while the array is initializing sounds like a hugh hack to me but i did it just because i didnt knew what else to do. It actually worked so now im back to the good old sloooow promisearray and after a xfs_repair my filer was up and running again. Next time i have to buy ideraid ill try 3ware for sure. -- Venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Kirk ARKENA thomas(at)arkena(dot)com Http://www.arkena.com BOFH excuse #283: Lawn mower blade in your fan need sharpening -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
