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I need a half height PCI sata raid controller today

Anyone have one, or can recommend someone that is open ?

Have cash for you now

computer alliance are open, give 'em a ring?

Done that, they don't have any that are half height =(

http://www.thediscshop.com.au have a couple, not sure if they're half height either though

need ?

... also sata raid lawls

... ... Also many half height cards are the normal card with a different panel

Our raid controller does a pretty good job, we downed magtheridon last night for the first time and he did a damn fine job of co-ordinating the initial pull with the 5 channellers and making sure all the cube clickers were on their toes.

what's lawls about sata raid

Nothing ...

Other then, when we spoke to HP about it (as part of both NAS and Disk-Disk-Tape backup solutions), their response was to say they sell SATA raid/NAS because people want it. With prices and large amounts of storage being the driving reasons. And they said it certainly had its place, but that it would not be their preferred option for anything "important".

They said they don't recommend it for mission critical things because SATA drives MTBF is much higher then the SAS drives. Something to do with SATA drives primarily being aimed at workstations and other non 24/7 non mission critical stuff.

And I guess I'd have to agree. Based on my limited experience.
500 SATA Drives (all under 6 months old). We experience ATLEAST 1 failure a week. To the point where the HP call centre doesn't even ask a million stupid questions, they just send out more drives.
80 SAS drives (all under 6 months old). We haven't experienced a failure.
50 Ultra SCSI drives (the drives that SAS replaced). 1 Failure in nearly 5 years. (The drives run 24/7 and are nearly 5 years old).


On top of that a lot of people who do go Sata raid, go RAID 0. So they are not only increasing their chance of failure, but are using a medium that the sellers themselves admit is not the most reliable.

I've been running a SATA raid 5 array for about 4yrs now, never had a failed drive. Maybe just lucky I guess.

1 Failure in nearly 5 years

That would have not failed had there been a backup air conditioner.

I wouldn't argue that sata is as or more reliable than scsi, but I don't reckon sata raid is lawlworthy

We're running several MSA20's each with 12 sata disks in each unit, in raid5 - we've called hp out for 2, maybe 3 of those disks in the past 12 months which is low compared to the number of U320 replacements we've had

Capt0 speaks the truth. The room was about the size of a wardrobe, running a good 20K Watts of gear. With a single aircon (that leaked water into the room ... AWESOME!).

Anyway, the aircon failed (actually managed to get stuck in a heating cycle GG heating a server room, thanks noobs who put it on auto instead of cooling only).

The server room when I got there was more oven temperature (seriously 50c +). Luckily the HP servers shut themselves down soon as it approached stupid temps.

We cooled the room down, and turned everything back on.

End result. 1 Dead HDD.

And a nice new shiny backup air con that we had been asking for, for 3 years.

Amasing what happens when you threaten to turn servers off each night until the air con gets fixed.

I would have tried Harvey Norman too; they usually have good variety for stuff like this. Might end up paying more but their range is awesome. <3 HN!

Harris Technology is another good supplier with unusual items like this (they are in the valley) and online ( www.ht.com.au )

500 SATA Drives ....
80 SAS drives ....
50 Ultra SCSI drives ....

You take your porn collection seriously Obes.

Everything is categorised, given a rating, cross linked by year, Actor or director using sym links...

Serious business.

Local disk storage is so last year..