3ware Controllers vs SCSI Raid

[Shawn L Johnston]

Great,

Thanks for the link and thoughts from everyone who replied! We've been using 
SCSI raid with most of our larger boxes and were looking at getting a new 
server in the near (6 month) future. The boss of course is looking at cost 
(as he should) and some guy has sold him that the cheaper 3ware and ATA 
drives are as good as SCSI, and I'm trying to look out that we don't get 
something that won't do the job. ;)

Thanks again,

Shawn


On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:42 pm, you wrote:
> True, i should have stated that for IDE RAID, 3ware does make decent
> hardware.  Just don't compare it to SCSI, because there is no comparison.
> This month's issue of Linux Journal actually has an article (Building the
> Ultimate Linux Box) where they used a 3ware RAID card.
>
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Federico Voges wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > As NetLlama said, you can't compare a good SCSI system against any IDE
> > system. SCSI is better, period.
> >
> > Anyway, although I don't have any experience with 3ware cards, I've
> > heard very good comments about them. They are the only *TRUE* IDE RAID
> > solution out there (except for ArcoIDE but they are only RAID1 and
> > Medea or something like that, but they are RAID0 tunned for viedo
> > editing).
> >
> > So my advice would be: you can't afford a SCSI system, go with 3ware.
> >
> > Remember, I don't have first hand experience with 3ware (just what I
> > heard on the net).
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:21:37 -0500, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> > >Anyone have insights they care to share on how 3ware ATA RAID
> > > controllers compare to SCSI Raid?
> > >
> > >Even better, are there a few benchmark comparissions out there that one
> > > can refer to?
> > >
> > >Many thanks,
> > >
> > >Shawn
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