On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server >> that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) >> hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil >> down to the card periodically throwing errors like the following: >> .... >> Have other folks had good luck with this card? What sorts of configs are >> you running? I'm in the position of needing more storage, and I'm a bit >> gun shy on 3ware at the moment... >> > > > I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use > external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we > usually don't make single raid sets much large than 7-8 drives, and for a > very large storage system, will stripe multiple raid5/6 sets rather than have > one huge one. Would that I had such luxuries. This is a university lab with needs for massive amounts of data and not much money with which to do it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF