I'd love to keep this card (it has 256MB of ram, too) but the problem is that it's running six IBM/Hitachi Ultrastore drives - all of which are useless. They keep going bad and even though they are under warranty and get replaced I can't build a system that keeps working for any period of time. Unfortunately, SCSI drives are expensive and I can't afford them at this time. So I'm looking at going to something more affordable that will let me run. This is a home workstation although I would like to do some audio work with it.
On Sunday 08 January 2006 22:24, kashani wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb 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. > > Seeing as that's a real RAID card, complete with an onboard cache of up > to 256MB RAM, I'd try to replace it with something as good or better. > That qualification pretty much eliminates 90% of the SATA cards out > there. Most of them are consumer grade with no caching and usually no > RAID processing since they're doing it in the driver. > > I've had good luck with 3ware cards and whatever OEM Adaptec AAC RAID > card Dell includes in their machines these days. > > kashani -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
