I have worked with 3 ware cards for over two years. I initially encountered some issues with the driver and a particular motherboard under windows 2000, but I have not seen this on more recent hardware.
Currently I am having fun with a unit that includes 2 3ware 7500-8 cards and 1 promise on-motherboard controller. The promise card win2k driver is flawed, with little signs of an update (or giving an ounce of excretia) from the manufacturer.
The 3 ware cards are better, but not perfect. There is no way to nominate which is the bootable card or bootable array on that card, apart from the utterly useless undocumented feature of pressing "ALT-B" on the BIOS you don't want to boot every time the PC is restarted. Beyond useless when the machine is supposed to be an unattended server.
The data transfer rates are hugely different between windows and linux, but I don't have any figures on that.
I'm not happy with any of them.
And as I work in hardware design, I'd like to build my own, if my boss will let me...
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I have worked with 3 ware cards for over two years. I initially encountered some issues with the driver and a particular motherboard under windows 2000, but I have not seen this on more recent hardware. Currently I am having fun with a unit that includes 2 3ware 7500-8 cards and 1 promise on-motherboard controller. The promise card win2k driver is flawed, with little signs of an update (or giving an ounce of excretia) from the manufacturer. The 3 ware cards are better, but not perfect. There is no way to nominate which is the bootable card or bootable array on that card, apart from the utterly useless undocumented feature of pressing "ALT-B" on the BIOS you don't want to boot every time the PC is restarted. Beyond useless when the machine is supposed to be an unattended server. The data transfer rates are hugely different between windows and linux, but I don't have any figures on that. I'm not happy with any of them. And as I work in hardware design, I'd like to build my own, if my boss will let me...