I have heard good thing about 3Ware, but I would suggest looking at the 8500-4 in combination with Western Digital's Raptor drive (http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030501/index.html). The Raptor is a 10,000 RPM SATA drive which, combined with the 8500-4 SATA Raid card should give excellent performance at a great price. I would also look at Opteron based servers if you are looking for performance for a good price.
Regards, Mike Hillyer www.vbmysql.com -----Original Message----- From: David Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RAID hardware suggestions/experience Anyone had any experience with 3Ware 7500-4 IDE RAID or the Promise SX-6000 IDE RAID cards? Specifically for Linux. Heard bad things about Promise, good about 3Ware. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Shoaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: RAID hardware suggestions/experience > I am using 4 120G IDE Drives with an Adaptec IDE RAID Controller on RedHat > Linux providing 240G of RAID 5 storage. While not quite as fast as SCSI, I > have found this to work very well. You should be able to pickup a nice > dual processor XENON 2.4Ghz system w/1G Ram and IDE RAID loaded with RedHat > Linux ES for around $4,000. > > At 12:25 PM 6/17/2003, you wrote: > >Hi there, > > > >Our databank with all tables and idices is about 130GB big. The biggest > >limitations we encounter are on the I/O side. > >Therefore we are willing to update our data storage system to a RAID system > >(RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or RAID 10). > > > >Has anyone experience with such RAID systems? > >What should we buy? > > >From whom should we buy (We are located in New York City)? > >Do you have any experience you want to share? > > > >Thank you very much for your help and support! > > > >Bernd > > > Patrick J. Shoaf, Systems Engineer > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Midmon Internet Services, LLC > 100 Third Street > Charleroi, PA 15022 > http://www.midmon.com > Phone: 724-483-2400 ext. 105 > or 888-638-6963 > Fax: 724-489-4386 > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]