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Does anyone here have a 3x CrossfireX setup, when i run the benchmark ExtremeHD i get 3702 with 2x crossfire and 3692 with 3x crossfire with 7970 cards, not sure if its valley that's not coded properly or the ati drivers but the performance on 3 cards dost seem to be any better then 2 cards...

does anyone know the optimal way to build the file system i just finished building my array 64k block10 2tb Hitachi disks in raid6 just wondering what options i should use on building my file system?

so i swaped these 10 drives out for 10 Hitachi's currentally building the raid6 array, my question is i'm not sure if my raid card (3ware 9750) has settings to idle/spindown, i havent seen any settings int eh bios or on the webconsole, should i be runnin the hitachi AMP tool on each disk, the...

i have a 2nd array built on the same card/expander of 1TB wd green drives and it dosnt seem to have any issues. I've sent 3ware the logs and this was there response "You have some major power cycle issues with these drives. Note that these are desktop drives, not enterprise drives. This type of...

Hi everyone I'm currently building a new file server with a 3ware 9750-8i card, using sff-8087 to a chenbro 28 port sas expander, and from there 5 sff-8087 cables to a norco 4220 case, i have 10 WD20EADS drives (older model with TLER support), in RAID6 (14.55TB usable) I've enabled TLER R/W for...

so i'm looking at purchasing some of these drives there retial package but i assume there the same drive in the retial packages there listed at HD32000, if there different can someone let me know, the 2nd question is if i purchase 3 of them to setup in a hardware raid will they would out of the...

so I'm new to the forums I've been long time reader first time poster, i have 9 1.5tb WDEADS and just recently purchased a 3ware 9750 Raid card, with a cenbro 28 port SAS expander board and a norco 4220 case, so i thought all was well until i started dropping drives and read this section about...