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Hi Brett |
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On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm |
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> using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) |
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> and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with |
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> recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. |
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> 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you |
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> found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands |
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I have no experience with SATA cards so this may be useless info. I've |
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used Promise SATA on a 2 year old machine at my dad's house, NVidia |
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SATA in my AMD64 machine and ATI SATA in my Pundit-R Myth frontend |
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machines. Of the three the ATI has worked pretty badly in terms of |
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performance. All have been reliable so far. |
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> 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've |
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> crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. |
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I'm at wit's end about Seagate drives. I bought 3 80GB Seagates from |
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Newegg. The produced all sorts of strange messages in my dmesg files |
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and I sent them back. This was on the ATI Pundit-R machines. I've used |
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WD SATA drives in the other machines, 80GB and 250GB. They have worked |
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really well. |
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Again, it's pretty limited info and probably not very useful in terms |
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of buying an adapter card, etc. |
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Good luck, |
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Mark |
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