Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:23:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Hodge Podge <nicole@unixgirl.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: val@picturetrail.com, mike.wentz@3ware.com Subject: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage Message-ID: <XFMail.010818222359.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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OK.. I tried.. I really liked the 3ware stuff. At first all of our troubles seemed to be directly traceable to my usage of IBM DTLA drives. But now after replacing abt 16 IBM drives.. I am still dealing with the 3ware card dropping out drives like rain. Tonight our main database server is dead again Jim. It used a 3ware 7800 8 port raid card with 7 Maxtor drives. It was in RAID10 configuration with 3 drives! (yes 3 drives) as hot spares. In less than a week, all but 2 of the drives have ostensibly failed!!! Our database completely wiped out AGAIN! (thank goodness for a recent backup) and of course our system down while I am finishing what was to be a hot standby server (using SCSI drives) to now become our temporary Main Database server. Last night durring a massive rdist of data (on a private network) a new server in RAID 5 with 8 Maxtor drives (1 as hot spare) DIED! It was getting 4 rdists at once across a GB link from 2 Standard Maxtor drives (no raid) when it died. How dead is it.. Well its So dead it will no longer boot. I have not had a chance to go to the datacenter yet, but on the screen it says.. "No Operating system Found, please insert boot disk" Thats pretty damn dead. Thats pretty crapola for it to completly die like that! I have had it. There are no driver issues here, there is no FreeBSD issue here, its all 3ware and can IDE drives really take abuse at all like that in a database server or even a very busy picture server. The answer is NO!!! ( And YES I had all new FreeBSD OS and the latest Firmware on the card) Nicole PS: I would like to thank Michael Wentz and Tom Tran for putting in some extra t ime to help us recover our data the last time this happend (less than 1 week ago) ******* |\ __ /| (`\ ******* * * | o_o |__ ) ) * * * * // \\ * * * Nicole Harrington | AKA Hodge Podge * ----------------------(((---(((-------------------------------- nicole@unixgirl.com http://www.unixgirl.com/ webmistress@dangermouse.org http://www.dangermouse.org/ nicole@deviantimages.com http://www.deviantimages.com/ -- Powered By Coca-Cola and FreeBSD -- "The world is run by those who show up" -- The Best Place for Your Web Site - www.WebWeaver.net -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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