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I'd love to keep this card (it has 256MB of ram, too) but the problem is that |
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it's running six IBM/Hitachi Ultrastore drives - all of which are useless. |
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They keep going bad and even though they are under warranty and get replaced |
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I can't build a system that keeps working for any period of time. |
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Unfortunately, SCSI drives are expensive and I can't afford them at this |
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time. So I'm looking at going to something more affordable that will let me |
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run. This is a home workstation although I would like to do some audio work |
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with it. |
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On Sunday 08 January 2006 22:24, kashani wrote: |
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> Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID |
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> > (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up |
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> > too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those |
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> > with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. |
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> Seeing as that's a real RAID card, complete with an onboard cache of up |
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> to 256MB RAM, I'd try to replace it with something as good or better. |
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> That qualification pretty much eliminates 90% of the SATA cards out |
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> there. Most of them are consumer grade with no caching and usually no |
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> RAID processing since they're doing it in the driver. |
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> I've had good luck with 3ware cards and whatever OEM Adaptec AAC RAID |
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> card Dell includes in their machines these days. |
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> kashani |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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