Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Tue, 10 May 2005 at 8:36pm, Lee W wrote > > > >>Okay I'm getting a bit over my head now. Anyone see any problems >>putting 2 of these in the same machine. After a few other comments I was >>thinking of trying 2 x RAID-1's. >> >> > >Most (all but one, actually) of my 3ware based servers have multiple cards >in 'em. My most recent has two 9500s-12 boards in it (on separate PCI >busses), each board set to RAID 5 w/ a hot spare, and I do a software >RAID0 across the two arrays. Performance (tiobench) graphs here: > >http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tioread.png >http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tiowrite.png > >In short, it goes fast. > > > Thanks for all the advise people have offered. I've been checking out all the 3ware cards available and believe that the Escalade 7506-4LP would be best for me. However I've noticed that it is a 64-Bit PCI Card. Can I still use this in a 32-Bit Slot. I think that I read something once that said it would work but at a reduced bandwidth. Regards Lee
