Comment Re:What does everybody have against promise? (Score 1) 898
In my case, I've had nothing but problems. The RAID card I bought turned out to be little more than a standard 2 port IDE card with special drivers - loading the standard drivers gave me an IDE card, not a RAID card.
Similarly I've got one of their 2 port IDE cards and I get, dozens of times a day, SMART errors from the drives connected to it. Connect the drivers to any other controller and it tests out just fine.
Then there was the array I tried to set up using their IDE cards and software RAID (Linux). Attempts to get 2 cards working together resulted in hardware lockups.
Bought 3Ware Escalade cards and all my problems went away. To date they've been rock solid, dead disks don't impact the system in the slightest.
Given the money, I'll buy 3Ware any day, though I hear that the Adaptec and Intel cards are supposed to be as good (though I've no experience of them).
Oh, and I don't have anything to do with any of the above companies, beyond buying and (ab)using their products :)
Similarly I've got one of their 2 port IDE cards and I get, dozens of times a day, SMART errors from the drives connected to it. Connect the drivers to any other controller and it tests out just fine.
Then there was the array I tried to set up using their IDE cards and software RAID (Linux). Attempts to get 2 cards working together resulted in hardware lockups.
Bought 3Ware Escalade cards and all my problems went away. To date they've been rock solid, dead disks don't impact the system in the slightest.
Given the money, I'll buy 3Ware any day, though I hear that the Adaptec and Intel cards are supposed to be as good (though I've no experience of them).
Oh, and I don't have anything to do with any of the above companies, beyond buying and (ab)using their products
