Russell Coker wrote: > > If you gave me a Promise card I would not use it, most reports of them are > not > positive.
For what it's worth - and it's probably not worth alot, I have had an okay experience with the Promise 2-port SATA RAID card in mirror mode on a not heavily loaded machine. Despite a painful installation, once running it did work okay, and the SATA seems to eliminate the "can't hotswap" problem on the Promise card -- I was able to yank SATA or SATA-style power connectors to the drive on repeated tests and it kept working. Would I recommend this card over a 3Ware? Never - I've been extremely happy with the 3Ware cards, especially their larger RAID5 capable models. Would I use it again in a pinch -- if I needed something _that day_ and my local vendor didn't have the 3Ware in stock? I would. Just my $0.02. -Ed
