I use 8500-8 3ware controllers, but I have seen a number of  controllers with faulty SATA connectors that cause the RAID to go outof sync....

Other than that software wise they are great...

P.


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 at 8:17pm, Lee W wrote

  
I'm certainly liking what I have seen of the 3Ware card's so far.  Their 
site lists quite a few distros as supported, including RHEL 3 which from 
a simplistic guess would also mean that Centos 3 (and possibly 4) would 
also be supported.
    

The nice thing about the 3wares are that the drivers for the 7/8xxx series 
have been in the kernel for a very long time (2.2 days, IIRC), and the 
9xxx drivers have been in for a while as well.  That's one reason they 
tend to be so well trusted.  As another vote of confidence, I've got 5 TB 
on 7xxx series controllers in production and another 5.5TB on 9xxx 
controllers in testing right now.