3ware 9650SE-4LPML 4-Port Serial ATA HardWare Raid Controller Retail

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Operating four WD 750GB Green Power drives 񢾘RPM low wattage) and I just clocked 154MB/sec in Sandra... In RAID-5.Wonderful software, and a lot of LED headers on the card to do anything you can dream up. Enjoy the multilane connector, keeps cables neat and tidy. Appreciate the onboard LED also. Card feels hot, but MPEG encoder is adjacent and radiating plenty of its personal heat. Wow, you can call tech help and somebody answers the telephone... Don't forget to get in touch with your inexpensive RAID-five card tech assistance and test-drive them prior to you purchase.

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Fits in a laptop slot Not sure exactly where to start out. Purchased this following reading all the critiques on here. I utilized this on a TYAN 7012 board for ESXi4. and ultimately a four.1 set up. Following installation, you will start to get 0x2a "card resetting errors" In ESXi you will see drive disconnected... lost connection, re-connecting.. and just intermittent disconnects. /var/log/messages on the ESXi or linux will show "card resetting". I opened a tech help case and they had me upgrade firmware/drivers to no avail... they then accused my HDD's of getting poor... all 4 of them in the RAID. Following that they just wanted to RMA the entire factor. I continued to troubleshoot... turns out the battery on the card was causing problems... after removed from the card, it worked ok. All in all, Steer clear of this card. If you want to run ESXi/ESX then get the Adaptec cards. LSI assistance is useless and these cards are buggy Not positive why absolutely everyone else is giving this excellent critiques. I am operate in the storage business and can assure you these cards are a 1 or two at greatest out of five rating. If you follow LSI's RMA process, their serial numbers are all messed up as properly. They send you conflicting information about what serial numbers you want to RMA and what components to maintain..and so on

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Performs smoothly with my supermicro server, running freebsd 7.1 amd 64 all in all worth every single penny. none

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Purchased this card and four Western Digital 640GB drives to replace a jumbled mess of Windows dynamic spanned volumes (the computer software equivalent of RAID ). Placing four 640GB drives in RAID five yields a 1.74TB volume with read speeds around 200MB/s. Windows Vista Ultimate installed on it without having any issues. Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) recognized it throughout install and automatically installed the correct drivers. The browser primarily based management application works properly. Smartmontools can pass by means of the card to get Smart data for person drives. Not all the documentation is incorporated in the box but is obtainable as PDF on the internet site. Study it ahead of time due to the fact there are a lot of configuration alternatives and as soon as you get the hardware you'll want to get it running, not sit and read about configuration choices. Keep in mind that RAID does not take the place of a backup. All it does is give you the possibility to make a backup after a single of the drives fails and maintain your program operating even though you order a replacement drive.If you're seriously interested in data protection, contemplate acquiring the optional battery backup unit which permits write caching on the card without having risking information loss if you lose power. It installs directly on the card in just a couple of minutes.Lastly, when deciding on drives, think about these that offer you time limited error recovery particularly for RAID usage.

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Price, the Multi-lane SATA saves some space and makes things a bit much more tidy. Not compatible with Tyan GT20 intel based servers. Tried servers with the i5000 and i3000 Intel chipsets. The motherboard doesn't recognize the card at all. Even immediately after updating Bios as suggested. Do not buy this card if you intend on using it in a Tyan based server. It does not function on the GT20 (B5191 - Toledo i3000) or the (B5372-LC).This might be a decent card if I could use it. 3ware's assistance was terrible. They responded quickly, but all I got was a canned answer stating that the card may possibly not be compatible with the MB. That's it. I'll stick with Areca.

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Easy installation. Completely supported by all Microsoft OS's. You can enable write back cache, with no battery backup. Can't use as a default controller in VMware ESXi. You can use it as the boot drive for ESX. I'm running this controller in a server that has numerous VM's. I had wanted to use ESXi, nonetheless I identified that you necessary to set up ESXi on drive on a diverse controller. To get about this limitation, I had to go with Microsoft's Hyper-V server.

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Effortless set up. Receiving fantastic efficiency out of a 3-drive RAID5 array with a hot spare. Battery backup is a separate, moderately pricey obtain. Gotta locate a board with a x4 PCI-Express slot (Intel D975XBX2 for me). This is my very first hardware RAID controller. Thanks to the effortless install, it will not be my last. I intend to acquire the 8-lane model for a server sometime subsequent year. I've been sabotaged by software program RAID setups just before. No additional.

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Incredibly easy to set up. Works with each Vista and Windows XP. The net interface makes it quite straightforward to monitor and handle the array. In "Performance" mode I get ᡴMB/s transfer rate. But without having Battery Back Up (BBU) module or a UPS this may possibly lead to information loss in case of energy failure since it utilizes a write cache. You have to use the SATA cables supplied and they where a small also quick for my setup. If the array is set in "Protection" mode I get barely 3MB/s Array with 4 750GB WD drives (WD7500AAKS). I removed a Difficult Drive to simulate a failure and immediately after I place it back in it automatically rebuilt the array just as it was supposed to.

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Natively supported under Centos five.1 32ኜ bit! Nothing to do, but use it. With a two disk RAID 1 setup, round robin reads, which makes study performance quite excellent. Greater than fantastic!LED pin outs for every single drive connected as nicely as the total activity.Exceptional Buyer support... Spent about an hour speaking with Tech Assistance prior to purchase about achievable hardware and application difficulties. Becoming technically savvy, I have to say the particular person I talked with had a very fantastic technical know-how background. Below WinXP SP2, you'll will need a floppy to set up the driver at the starting of the create, which I type of expected.Who builds a new computer with a floppy drive these days? I was working with a /dev/md# RAID 1 setup under Centos five.1 to run my VMWare Workstation 6 playground... Lots of temporary hangs and jerkiness... Re-designed the Centos OE working with this controller, and the overall performance jumped. All of the concerns and annoyances I had (Obviously with the software program based RAID 1 setup) disappeared.MB: Asus CrossHair 񣳠 GTX in PCIEX16_two, 9650SE in PCIEX4_1, SB Audigy 2ZS in PCI1) AMD Althon 5600+, 4 GB Essential Ballistix Ɣ x 1).

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Wanted it to manage a RAID ten on an ESXi 4 server. Appears to do a wonderful job. 3ware has excellent assistance to get it going with Vmware. None but.

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Nice capabilities, onboard memory, supports RAID ten A tiny bit of a pain to install if you do not have a floppy drive. I have an HP Proliant G3 server with no possibility of utilizing a floppy disk drive and to slipstream the drivers on the server 2003 set up disk to even be capable to have the set up disk recognize the drives. (USB floppy disk do not function either see related forums on the web).I ultimately installed win 2003 server on the method working with a RAID ten config with Hitach deskstar terabyte drives purchased on newegg and when the computer system rebooted immediately after the set up got a BOSD. Attempted different RAID config, drives individually, and various PCIe slot but got the exact same result. Named tech assistance and they told me it was a identified situation with these drives. suggested flashing the BIOS on the card and on the server but right after three days of messing around with this car or truck I lost all interest in getting it to perform and had quite little self-assurance in the outcome. get in touch with tech help and make certain the make, model and size of your drive is supported. Thumbs up to newegg for the understanding the RMA and the complete refund that was issued in my case.

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Operates with my technique running Windows 7. None Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P, Windows 7 Prof, 250WD Boot Drive, 500WD Technique file Drive and 4 HITACHI Deskstar HD31000 IDKǝK 1TB Drives in RAID5. 3Com 64bit Fiber Card all Installed in a LIAN LI Pc-A7010 complete tower case. Runs incredibly cool. Computer has been up and running 24ǝ 1 year. Hardware RAID 2 days. So far So Excellent...

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Fast with BBU. Performs with a substantial number of OSes (Tested with Windows Server 2003, 2008, and OpenSUSE ten). Nice GUI and CLI management tools. Slow with no BBU. Assistance not as good as advertised. Expensive when totally equipped. I've usually had fantastic luck with 3ware in the past and this one does not disappoint. When paired with the optional BBU, the card screams. Without having a BBU, on the other hand, the card functionality dips properly beneath onboard RAID solutions located on Intel southbridges.For the 1st time I had to make contact with 3ware support. Through email, the help leadtime was very extended ྸ hours). The corporation gave me a typical boilerplate answer and ignored three followups. Figuring out the concern myself, I closed the ticket. I supplied the answer must other encounter the identical concern but so far 3ware has not taken me up on my supply.Here is my confimed working setup. Supermicro C2SBM (Intel Q35 + ICH9DO) and four x 1TB WD10EADS drives. Technique also has a Celeron 440 w/ 4GB of Kingston PC2-6400 RAM Ƒ.8v). 45w @ idle.The WD drives may well show up with only 31.8MB of space. Do a search for "atola" and ൩mb" for the fix. Right after working with the utility, the drives come up with 1TB of capacity.

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3ware quality; Good price tag; PCI-E x4; Linux utils. None. Bought this both due to the fact I've usually wanted strong hardware raid on my desktop (not just servers), and since I wanted at least 8 *total* SATA ports obtainable to migrate information from my 4x250GB linux software program mdraid array, but, there have been NO eight+ port AM2 motherboards accessible at newegg(!), though there had been for Intel, and, there have been no inexpensive non-raid four-port sata2 controllers offered. I'm employing this with a regular three-to-4 bay hotswap SATA enclosure (istarusa N82E16817121913), and not a chassis that supports the 3ware status LEDs (like the sidecar).

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Very solid RAID card. 3ware's internet site is full of drivers and technical help to aid in the installation of this card in virtually any OS imaginable. It worked promptly and essential no additional drivers or BIOS upgrades. None so far. You may want to invest in 3ware's BBU due to the fact without it, you would be foolish to enable the card's write cache. Nevertheless, with no the create cache, the card will operate considerably slower due to the fact it have to completely create prior to performing the subsequent task. Save your self the headache and worry and just get the BBU.

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Reliable hardware RAID option with good functionality. Mine is in RAID Mode 1, and I have no battery backup unit (BBU) but the efficiency is nonetheless practically identical to single drive. I had 1 fail final year soon after the warranty expiration but AMCC nonetheless replaced it absolutely free. Has worked with each disk drive I have ever attempted (over 20 unique models). Under no circumstances had a single of these cards run hot. The cards are narrow but quite extended and usually will not fit because of RAM cards or MB heatsink. AMCC is not fantastic about updating their know-how base with identified fixes. Cannot logically break RAID for testing. If you require to run low-level diagnostics on a drive, the drive shoudl be disconnected from RAID controller and connected to plain controller on motherboard. I beleive this is widespread with Pc RAID controllers. If you are getting problems with installation, be confident you are following directions precisely. If you do tasks in incorrect order, it may not operate. When I set up these cards, I often disable the on-board RAID controller very first then allow later right after I know the 3Ware card is working. Though they do not generally tell you, you must not run chkdsk with the drives connected to the RAID controller.I give it four stars alternatively of five since the card is as well long for a lot of motherboards. It ought to be made shorter and wider.

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Lately upgraded a pals recording studio personal computer to this card. He was operating WDC 300GB 10k RPM drives on a ICH9R. WOW! What a difference. 3ware also have 9.5.three drivers out for Complete Windows 7 assistance. If enabling create-back cache get the battery - it's a tiny $$ though. This card supports ESX, Linux and Mac OS 10.5x +I will be making use of this card in future server builds.Running Windows 7 Ultimate and it flies!

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Configuration interface effortless to use. OpenFiler recognized RAID 5 ( 4x 1 TB SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ) with no any issues. None yet.

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Exceptional overall performance with Create Cache enabled, easy installation. Doesn't come with a Battery. Initial one particular I received failed right after a handful of days of testing; second a single is solid. Get the 3ware BBU-MODULE-04 which mounts the battery on a separate dummy card, so there are no temperature issues.

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Easy to install Slowed our server down incredibly. had to invest two weeks figurign it out. Was not our drives or cage, it was the card. Installed new card and reports went from five minutes down to 45 seconds, where they are suppose to be when operating SQL and ASP pages.