Keith Keller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >> I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux >> kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case. >> >> http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.html > > I can't speak to this, except to point out that it is almost 18 months > old, which is quite a long time in kernel development space. Which is why I am asking. > > With the right incantation, one can call smartctl directly on a drive > connected to a 3ware controller, no matter what kind of array it is in. > (I believe you can even call it on a drive assigned as a hot spare.) Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. > >> Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have >> heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how >> Adaptec and Areca look now? > > I've run an exclusively 3ware shop since I ditched my last aacraid > machines a few years back. But with all their issues, I am definitely > considering trying Areca on my next server that's not planned to be > immediately mission-critical. (I wouldn't switch back to Adaptec unless > I knew their interface tools, and especially their cli, had improved > dramatically; the aaccli/afacli interfaces were simply atrocious.) > What issues are you having with 3ware?