Re: Off-topic: 3ware mirror rebuild time

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

On 2 Nov 2003, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> >>>>> "MB" == Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org> writes:
> 
> MB> Thanks...my first time around with these guys, and it's on a 5400
> MB> card.
> 
> I'm amazed that you could even find a card that old.  With an old
> 6000-series card it's better to use it as a rather nice multi-port IDE
> controller and run software RAID on it.  I can't imagine that the
> 5000-series cards could possibly be any better, and it's probably
> going to be slower than a modern plain old IDE controller.

I can't imagine that, really.  IDE controllers haven't come very far in 
the last 4 years (ATA-100 was already available at that point, if I 
recall).

That notwithstanding, I was looking for an inexpensive RAID card, and I 
won this guy on eBay for less than $30 (+ shipping).  How could I go 
wrong? <G>

> As for the rebuild time, my cards give me progress info via the 3DM
> web or CLI interfaces.  I don't know if the last BIOS release for the
> 5000-series supports that info, but you could try.

The 3DM app didn't give me any sort of time estimate...I can see if 
there's a more recent version.
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