I'll second that. We have close to 150 Compaq ProLiant servers with SmartArray controllers [different versions] and had no more than 3 controllers fail in the last 5 years. Drives failed quite a bit but then again, just pop a new one in and use the warranty to replace the dead one. BTW, all 3 of the controllers that failed were the "embedded" kind, none of the "add-in" boards failed.
We are using Novell Netware as well, so this is more of a comment about hardware reliability rather than software woes.
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I'll second that. We have close to 150 Compaq ProLiant servers with SmartArray controllers [different versions] and had no more than 3 controllers fail in the last 5 years. Drives failed quite a bit but then again, just pop a new one in and use the warranty to replace the dead one. BTW, all 3 of the controllers that failed were the "embedded" kind, none of the "add-in" boards failed.
We are using Novell Netware as well, so this is more of a comment about hardware reliability rather than software woes.
Hahaha! I will agree with that.
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