Best Raid 1 Controller Card ?

I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
machine at work.
I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on
some machines and not on others
and the machines are identical. I need one that works and has good
instructions and works all the time. The documentation for the
Promise
card is useless.

I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.


Thanks Much

Previously chuck.streb@gmail.com wrote:
> I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
> machine at work.
> I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on
> some machines and not on others
> and the machines are identical. I need one that works and has good
> instructions and works all the time. The documentation for the
> Promise
> card is useless.

> I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.

> Thanks Much

I would recommend 3ware. Not cheap, but the promise-cards are
really fakeRAID, i.e. BIOS raid. That is a lso the reason
for their ''moodyness''.

Arno

You want firmware RAID, not hardware (which is pci-x and no faster).
Silicon Image is fine, like this:
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...nufacture=Syba

<chuck.streb@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
> machine at work.
> I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on
> some machines and not on others
> and the machines are identical. I need one that works and has good
> instructions and works all the time. The documentation for the
> Promise
> card is useless.
>
> I need SATA and PCI. Not PCI-X or IDE.
>