Barry L. Kline mailto:blkline@attglobal.net tapped at Friday, May 26, 2006 4:50 PM:

Les Mikesell wrote:

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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:56, Barry L. Kline wrote:

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Note that unless it has changed recently, SATA drives don't pass errors up to the software raid layer correctly. If a drive dies it doesn't get kicked out as it should.

Good point. The systems on which I use it are either IDE-based or SCSI-based. The SATA machines I have are all 3ware RAID controller equipped.

Barry

This is what I go with, 3Ware and SATA drives. My company just needs the raw storage space, and not so much speed. So, I can live with SATA drives on 3Ware cards, and things just work.

Mark