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RAID Controller Cards

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burningice

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I was wondering if anyone knew any other quad and up raid controller cards besides the Adaptec 2400/2400A that has memory?

I'm in the market for one but all I can find are the 3Ware, LSI, and Promise that produce such cards but they don't have built in memory or even upgradable memory. Looking for a P-ATA card, I don't have any SATA drives yet.

Thanks for your responses.
 
??? the Promise SX4000 will support 256MBs of SDRAM
the SX6000 128MBs
 
Cool, I did not know that.

I just saw the SX6000 on Promise website and I didn't read the .pdf so I didn't know it could have ram. Though it seems like the SX4000 is not on the Promise webpage any more.

Thank you very much for the information. :)
 
Trust me, avoid the promise cards like the plague.

I was running the sx6000 in a 5 drive, raid 5 array with 1 hotspare. Now, I thought this meant that if a drive failed, the hotspare would automatically kick in and the card would rebuild the data on the drive.

Foolish me. Lost a drive, and the entire array went down. The hotspare didn't do shit. Further, I plugged in a new drive, and rebooted, hoping it would rebuild on the new drive ( after adding it to the bios ).

Nope. Lost the array info. Even after hours on the phone with tech support, my array was toast.

Promise sucks. Do not trust your data to them.
 
Thank you once again Ice Czar. I stand corrected once again. I need to improve my search skills or at least increase my patience. :)

Thanks for the info people. I looked at a few LSI cards. Most have embedded ram. And look quite promising. I was wondering if there were any good 64bit/66mhz cards out there?
 
I was wondering if there were any good 64bit/66mhz cards out there?
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3Ware's 7506 is.
No expandable memory though. Unless you are doing RAID 5 it doesn't do much anyway.
 
Originally posted by XOR != OR
Trust me, avoid the promise cards like the plague.

I was running the sx6000 in a 5 drive, raid 5 array with 1 hotspare. Now, I thought this meant that if a drive failed, the hotspare would automatically kick in and the card would rebuild the data on the drive.

Foolish me. Lost a drive, and the entire array went down. The hotspare didn't do shit. Further, I plugged in a new drive, and rebooted, hoping it would rebuild on the new drive ( after adding it to the bios ).

Nope. Lost the array info. Even after hours on the phone with tech support, my array was toast.

Promise sucks. Do not trust your data to them.
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Strange, I have an SX6000 with 6 WD2000JBs on it in RAID5. On day two, one of the drives crapped out, the array did not go down and when I popped in the replacement, the entire machine ran like nothing had happened as it was rebuilding the array.. I was quite impressed actually.
 
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