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HomeStorage DevicesDrive ControllersRAID Controllers & Components3WARE 9650SE-2LP Internal Sata II Hardware Raid Controller Card. Pci-express X1, |
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8 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Buyer Beware... Mar 31, 2010
By Safris
This is the fourth RAID cart I've owned from 3ware. All others worked perfectly and prior to this purchase, I've recommended their products to many. Not any more.
One of the great things about PCs are they are based on an architecture, where parts are interchangeable as long as the interfaces are comparable. So if you have a 3GB SATA drive you can plug it into any 3GB SATA port and it just works. Certainly some motherboards and interface cards will have cool special features that only work with certain parts and if you plug in something that doesn't support the cool special feature, you can't use the feature, but the component still just works.
But not with this card. Not by a long shot. There is a SHORT list of hard drives that will work with this card. And if you plug in a drive that doesn't work, you have to push it hard, I mean really hard to discover that it doesn't work. I'm using Ubuntu and I kept getting controller crashes after several hours of constant coping of data to the drives I had connected. Finally their tech support admitted that this is what happens when you don't use a drive on their short comparability list. Fortunately I discovered this problem before I lost any data.
Whatever feature is causing the card to crash like this needs to be automatically turned off by the card if the drives don't support it. A card this expensive should never leave finding comparability issues to when you need the card the most.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Works fine under FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE Sep 01, 2009
By Jeffrey Chan
Works fine under FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE with Seagate Barracuda 7200.5 drives and a SuperMicro server board.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
works great for RAID 1 redundancy in Windows Server 2008 Jan 26, 2011
By devolution
I'm going to keep this short because I'm lazy about writing a lot:
I have one of these running in a RAID 1 setup for OS redundancy, using 32-bit Windows Server 2008. i have had no problems whatsoever with installation or usage. installation was a breeze. I flashed the BIOS to the newest version to match the version of the newest available Server 2008 drivers -- no problems. configuring the array was simple to do. Windows setup had no problem recognizing the driver (both from the CD-ROM that came with the card and from a USB flash drive), and it detected the array, partitioned & formatted the drives, and installed Windows Server with no problems at all. i cloned the Windows install on this server from a different server with a different RAID card, using Backup Exec System Recovery, and even that had no problem seeing the array and updating the HAL for the new hardware. i tested this clone a couple of times before going live and never had any problems with it. this server runs all the time as a domain controller & print server.
again, i've never had any problems with this card, but admittedly i've never tested what happens if one of the drives fails. i intend to purchase another of these cards for another server, so i'll do some testing to see how well it handles rebuilding a degraded array before it's a critical situation.
i think this card is an excellent value for the cost. i can't speak to the reliability in Linux, and i don't care to find out anyway, but i can say that Windows support seems to be pretty problem-free. (i'm sure there are those who would disagree but i've had no problems).
i also have a 3WARE 9650SE-4LPML in another server (Server 2008 R2 x64) running a RAID 5 and it also has not had any problems. that array is data only but it's been totally reliable so far.
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