SATA Raid

Hi All

I'm looking at a Supermicro SATA Raid chassis with 250gb maxtors (x5) to
give me a proper stripped array (that I can also use the same physical
drives attached to an Abit IC7-G mainboard).

Has anyone used the Supermicro CSE-M35T1 cage and any comments or
feedback on the cage. Having searched the newsgroups I'm concerned that
I cannot find one reference to user experience (which would lead me to
believe either nobody's bought them so ongoing support will be an
issue....or there is a problem with them so the dealer channel isn't
moving them through...)

All input greatfully received and anyone got a recommendation for a good
RAID controlled to go with it.

TIA

P

In article , Paul Duffy wrote:

All input greatfully received and anyone got a recommendation for a good
RAID controlled to go with it.

I just received a system with two of these CSE-M35T1, and am in the process of
burning it in. The system config:

1x SuperMicro Kabinett, CSE-942i-600/B, Trippel redundant powersupply
1x SuperMicro Motherboard, X5DPE-G2, dual ethernet Gbit lan
2x 4 x 1 HotSwap S-ATA, CSE-M35T-1
1x SAMSUNG. DVD 16X / CD 48X INT. IDE, SD-616QEB
1x Floppy, 1.44MB, 3.25"
2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPU, 512kB Cache
4x Kingston 512MB PC2100 ECC/REG CL2.5 minne, KVR266X72RC25/512
2x Systemdisk, SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.7, ST3120026A, 120GB U100 8MB
8x MAXTOR MAXLINEII PLUS 250GB, 7Y250M0,1790 7200RPM SATA
1x 3ware Escalade 8506-8 Serial ATA 150 RAID controller card, Retail

I so far can't give much more feedback than that it seems to be working fine.
No problems so far, and bonnie++ is reporting very good performance on the
8 disk raid-0 array. I get approx. 200MB/s on both read and write.



-jf