3ware 8500 serial raid controller - pure hardware solution!

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taskara · Post by **taskara** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:46 am

hi,

I am wondering if the 3ware 8500 serial ata raid controller is 100% hardware, or is it one of these semi-hardware that require a driver (like on-board so called raid controllers) ?

I am considering it for a gentoo server. I know there is 3ware support in the kernel, is that all I need? and will linux see it as a single scsi device ?

ANY advice or help would very very very much appreciated!!

thank you!!

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 12:14 pm

btw incase anyone wants to know -

it is 100% hardware

it has had beautiful linux support since 2.0 kernels

I want the 8506 controller with 4X Western Digital Raptor HDD's all in raid 0

omg that must KICK ARSE

anyone out there played with a 3ware controller? *droooooooool*

that would be like sex for my gentoo machine

stani · Post by **stani** » Mon May 10, 2004 12:35 pm

We are using 4 channel 8500 - RAID 1+0, and it is very very fast. For our new file server we plan for 8 channel 9500 with 250GB hitachi drives - 4 drives at the begining. The new controler allows to add drives in a RAID volume without breaking it