[Pc_Support] 3Ware 9500s-4LP SATA 1 dead port

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 23:12 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> http://tinyurl.com/dtvca
> "ONE of the ports of the 4 ports is non-operational. The card has THREE 
> working ports. The bad port does not slow down the card, you basically have a 
> 3 port card instead of the 4."
> I don't even have any SATA drives, but more and more drives available on the 
> cheap after rebates are SATA and I have no SATA 3Ware cards.  What's more, I 
> doubt I'll ever be running four drive RAID 1+0, but probably three drive RAID 
> 5 on it with larger SATA drives.
> Seems hard to close for cheap.  But it still has 14 hours left, so it might go 
> for >$100 even with a dead port.  Either way, I think I'll bid low.

3Ware cards have a 3-year warranty.  I don't think the 9000S series is
quite 3 years old yet, but I could be wrong.  I'd buy it and see if I
could get it replaced under warranty.


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