SATA RAID Hdd suggestions

[gerg]

Re: SATA RAID Hdd suggestions

The firmware yes and it is common from what I have read across the board with that gen card.

[ratdude747]

Re: SATA RAID Hdd suggestions

The firmware yes and it is common from what I have read across the board with that gen card.

9650 is the next generation...

[smason]

Re: SATA RAID Hdd suggestions

where do you come up with this? I've seen this done ALOT with sata, never ran into data loss other then when a drive crashes

and he also has a hardware controller...should he use PATA? I've used raid 0 on a vtrak 15100 on drives that do not support TLER and was perfect

If a "Consumer" SATA hard drive encounters a bad sector, it'll go off and do a bunch of retries on the read. After a few seconds the RAID controller will say "hey, where the hell did drive 0 go?" and fail the drive.
With RAID 0, you're done.
With RAID 1 or 5 you have to "unfail" the drive rebuild the array.

"Enterprise" drives tell the controller "hey, read error" and let the controller deal with it, instead of going off to do humpteen retries.

I had this happen with a brand new set of drives that were supposed to be "enterprise" but it turned out they weren't.