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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:56:39 -0700
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: rugolsky@ead.dsa.com
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Subject: Re: 3ware discontinuing the Escalade Series
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:52:59PM -0400, rugolsky@ead.dsa.com wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:09:40AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Jason Giglio wrote:
> > > 3ware has decided to discontinue their escalade series IDE RAID controller
> > > cards.  The drivers were open source and in the kernel tree.
> > 
> > OK, this sucks because I like those cards a lot.  Before I go out and
> > stock up on a bunch of them, is there anything else out there that works
> > as well and is supported by Linux?
> 
> Not that I know of; the other cards just don't seem to scale as well.
> What a shame.

I personally don't use teh 3ware raid features at all, I use the card
as a high performance interface to 4 drives and do my own backups
(I mirror each disk to /nightly, /weekly, and /monthly which is kind
of neat because you can do "$ diff foo.c /nightly/$PWD" and it works,
saves a lot of headaches).

Are there decent alternatives if all you want is a high performance
JBOD controller?
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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