Re: [OT] VERY STUPID RAID QUESTION!

["matt_miles_uk" <m_miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOW!  I REALLY didn't reaslise they had a bad rep.  The Promise
cards are half the price of the rocketRAID ones too! Bonus!

So can I put more than 1 promise card in a system and make 1 HUGE
hard drive?  (everything will be backed up properly!)

Cheers,

Matt

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ian@w...> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) [mailto:haweste@a...]
> >
> >Didn't someone have a *really* bad experience with a Highpoint
> RocketRaid >card not so long ago ?  Ian ?
>
> Yep.
>
> If you take one bit of advice from the list...
>
> For the love of all that's holy don't touch highpoint raid cards
with a
> forty foot stick.
>
> Seriously.
>
> I have seen more lost data with those damn things than any other
bit of
> hardware. As well as my own disaster when the red hat drivers for
the
> 404 rocket Raid card borked it's guts up, I have just finished
fixing an
> SBS 2000 environment where *again* a single disk failing wiped out
the
> whole array.
>
> Thankfully, in that case, I had already advised the customer to run
> wildly in another direction, and they were therefore carrying out
> backups every four hours until we could get the downtime to rip the
> thing out and throw it away.
>
> I am *amazed* that there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against
> Highpoint, as to be blunt, I have not seen a single reliable
component
> they have produced - in every case, heavily loading a PC results
in data
> loss or corruption - the HPT370 controller in particular. I copied
a
> divx movie from back and forth from one disk to another on an
HPT370
> controller as an example. Each copy, the video picked up obvious
> artefacts until by copy four, it was unable to play - an absolutely
> ridiculous error rate, even more so when the controller quite
happily
> informed windows that all was well.
>
> For huge disk installations, I would use Promise Controller cards -
I
> have yet to have an issue with one, and rather than hardware raid,
I'd
> be using Window's built in mirroring.
>
> If on Linux, I'd be taking a good look at your filesystem. Ext3 is
a
> ticking timebomb in my experience, but your mileage may vary.
>
> No matter what you choose, one golden rule - if you are not happy
to
> lose it, BACKUP!!
>
> I.