Hi Brett On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm > using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) > and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with > recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. > > 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you > found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands
I have no experience with SATA cards so this may be useless info. I've used Promise SATA on a 2 year old machine at my dad's house, NVidia SATA in my AMD64 machine and ATI SATA in my Pundit-R Myth frontend machines. Of the three the ATI has worked pretty badly in terms of performance. All have been reliable so far. > > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. I'm at wit's end about Seagate drives. I bought 3 80GB Seagates from Newegg. The produced all sorts of strange messages in my dmesg files and I sent them back. This was on the ATI Pundit-R machines. I've used WD SATA drives in the other machines, 80GB and 250GB. They have worked really well. Again, it's pretty limited info and probably not very useful in terms of buying an adapter card, etc. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
