Re: [CentOS] SAS raid controllers

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi Gordon, I am running a 51645, two 31605 and four 3405 SAS raid controllers from adaptec plus a few more older 2820sa cards. Two of the 3405 controllers have been running for nearly three years without any issues at all. The "5" series card has been working fine. They do run very hot so

Re: [CentOS] SAS raid controllers

2010-02-16 Thread John R Pierce
Gordon McLellan wrote: > Is anyone running either the newish Adaptec 5805 or the new LSI > (3ware) 9750 sas raid controllers in a production environment with > Centos 5.3/5.4? > > The low price of these cards makes me suspicious, compared to the more > expensive pre-merger 3ware cards and consid

Re: [CentOS] SAS raid controllers

2010-02-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/16/2010 06:17 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: > The low price of these cards makes me suspicious, compared to the more > expensive pre-merger 3ware cards and considerably more expensive Areca > ARC-1680. Dont have an answer to your question as such, but I can tell you that the Arc-1680's are ver

[CentOS] SAS raid controllers

2010-02-16 Thread Gordon McLellan
Is anyone running either the newish Adaptec 5805 or the new LSI (3ware) 9750 sas raid controllers in a production environment with Centos 5.3/5.4? The low price of these cards makes me suspicious, compared to the more expensive pre-merger 3ware cards and considerably more expensive Areca ARC-1680.