Friday, July 18, 2008

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

Jeffrey Baker writes:

> Their firmware is, frankly, garbage. In more than one instance we
> have had the card panic when a disk fails, which is obviously counter
> to the entire purpose of a RAID.

I have had simmilar problems with 3ware 9550 and 9650 cards.
Undre FreeBSD I have seen constant crashes under heavy loads.
Used to think it was just FreeBSD, but saw a thread on StorageReview where
the same was happening under Linux.

> controllers from our database server and replaced them with HP P800s.

How is that working out?
Which RAID level? SAS/SATA?

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