IBM serveraid and linux

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:18, Tim Writer wrote:

> As another data point, one of our customers had some similar machines with
> the 4M SeveRAID cards.  They had several failures that took out the entire
> array.  The IBM technician who came to replace the failed drives said it
> happens a lot so I'm not convinced SeveRAID is all it's cracked up to be.

The serveraid cards failed (at least once), lots of individual drives failed 
(I'd guess at least 6), motherboards failed (I believe twice).  These 
machines were such crap that I'd have more faith putting a cheap whitebox in 
with a single IDE disk.

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