I have to echo this. I use have used 3Ware cards since the 5xxx series card. Rock solid. I've sold several servers with them. Used them Linux, Win98, Win2000, WinNT & WinXP. (Slackware supports them with the raid.s kernel - or you can roll your own as the driver is in the kernel source) The utilities are browser based and work great. It also will email a specified address in the event of issues. I have had drives fail twice on my home computers. I run them in RAID 5 and both times I heard the drives clicking and by the time I got around to checking into the controller card had taken the drives off line and issued alerts.
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I have to echo this.
I use have used 3Ware cards since the 5xxx series card. Rock solid. I've sold several servers with them. Used them Linux, Win98, Win2000, WinNT & WinXP. (Slackware supports them with the raid.s kernel - or you can roll your own as the driver is in the kernel source)
The utilities are browser based and work great. It also will email a specified address in the event of issues. I have had drives fail twice on my home computers. I run them in RAID 5 and both times I heard the drives clicking and by the time I got around to checking into the controller card had taken the drives off line and issued alerts.