On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Hi, > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > www.3ware.com (escalade 3w-6200) > > I will be doing raid 0 (striping) strictly for performance. Does anyone > have experience with these cards or any other cards? Any > recommendations/comments welcome. > I've been looking into this stuff for a while, and have found that the fasttrack100 cards have timing problems under linux so I would not recommend these. I'm quite encouraged by 3ware's linux drivers: they support many more distributions than promise and seem to have a better commitment to linux. Thus although I've not used them, I'd be tempted to go for the 3ware cards.
Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing
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