Re: Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?

Check out the 9550SX-4LP. I have used all three (8506, 9500, and 9550) and 
performance gets better with each version.

Bob Dehn


"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote on 01/12/2006 08:46:08 AM:

> Hi again,
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> We had this discution last year. Now I have time to reinstall the 
system... 
> and to order the raid controller.
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> I will buy one of these:
> 3WARE 9500S-4 4HD RAID
> 3WARE 8506- 4 4HD RAID.
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> OS will be Suse 9.1(maybe 10... but not 100%)
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> I have 4 SATA HDD's and want to build a 10 Raid.
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> According to some benchmarks the 8506 is faster then the 9500S.
> http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=9500s4lp&page=8
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> Now, I don't know which one should I buy. The price difference is 30 
EURO 
> more for the 9500.
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> Any suggestion is welcome.
> 
> Andy.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Black, Alain" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; "Andy" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
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> Same here.  Lspci shows it as " 01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc
> 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)"
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> We are also running the 3dm software to  monitor the card/RAID set.
> 
> -Alain.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:42 AM
> To: Andy
> Cc: Black, Alain; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
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> I've got one of the 8506 series SATA RAID controllers running the stock
> 3w-xxxx driver with no problems so far - had more problems finding an
> XP64
> driver for it....
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> 
> Kevin Gassiot
> Advanced Systems Group
> Visualization Systems Support
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> Veritas DGC
> 10300 Town Park Dr.
> Houston, Texas 77072
> 832-351-8978
> [email protected]
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> >> We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA.  And have had no
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> I supose you mean the 3ware 9500S series controllers.
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> I couldn't find any drivers for suse 9x 64 for the 8506 series.
> 
> Andy.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Black, Alain" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:24 PM
> Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Malone [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:18 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
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> At 04:06 AM 10/17/2005, Andy wrote:
> >Hi to all,
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> >We have a Fujitsu Siemens Econel 200 Server. 2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 2x
> >SATA HDD. Suse 9.1 64 Prof is installed.
> >
> >At the moment we are using a software raid, but we want to buy 2
> >more HDD's and implement a 0+1 or 1+0 RAID.
> >I looked over and over about raid controllers, have found from 120
> >EURO's  to 1000 EURO's but there seems to be a little problematic
> >the Suse 64 driver.
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> >A very convenient driver would be the
> >Promise FastTrack S150 TX4 or
> >SX4 controller
> >but I still don't know if the drivers are quite functional.
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> >The tx4 seems faster as the sx4 but has no 64 driver.
> >
> >We had in the past some problems with hardware raid controller on suse.
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> >Does anyone uses some good raid controllers and could give me some
> >informations?
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> >I have been using 3ware sata raid on two different machines here at
> >work with amd 64 cpu's in them with no problem. suse has the 3ware
> >driver built in for years now. been using 3ware raid cards for years
> >also with no problems. now I am not sure what they cost in
> >EURO's  since im in the US.
> 
> 
> jack
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> We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA.  And have had no
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> -Alain
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