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Old 24th September 2008   #1 (permalink)
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We're currently using the 3ware 9650-2LP raid cards. They're very good, however we've had a lot of failed ones lately. On top of that they're not compatible with server 2008. Looking at going for LSI but need to find out that is sub £100, do they do any any alternatives, any you can suggest?
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Adaptec Unified Serial, or Areca. As for the 3ware - why not just slipstream the driver in to your ISO?
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Adaptec 3805 for win2k8 - although there's a known bug with the firmware at present - it "forgets" the raid array after a hard power down (not after a reboot though), fixed by going in and detecting/saving it again, but does meand you must have permanent KVMoIP on the box

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3ware 9650s are not 2008 compatible and their reliability seems to of dropped. Spoken to my supplier gonna try get some LSIs in.
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Is there the same issue with the 4 port version?

As only issue we had was we had to use a specific beta driver for the OS to work. Multiple reboots later and its all good.
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just would not install create partitions etc. sadly with the amount of servers we have we haven't got the time to be constantly fiddling around.
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Never been a big fan of LSI, we used to use quite a few SCSI cards from them back in the day and that's the only time we've ever had cards fail and/or corrupt arrays. *touches wood*
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