3ware Controllers vs SCSI Raid

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:04 am, you wrote:
> That 'guy' wouldn't happen to tbe the 3ware sales rep, would it?  ;)

Not as far as I know but I'm starting to wonder ;)

Shawn

>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> > 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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