[Pc_Support] 3Ware question

Jason Boxman jasonb at edseek.com
Mon Feb 20 12:59:40 EST 2006


William Warren said:
> I have a PE SC430 running SBS2k3 Standard.  I have dual 160 gig SATA
> hdd's that i want to run in RAID-1.  Which card would you all recommend
> i track down for this machine?
>
> The pci slots are 32-bit 33mhz.  i have 1-1x 1-4x and 1-8x pci-e
> available.

Good question.  Bryan's been looking for/at PCIe based ATA/SATA solutions.

I don't believe 3Ware offers one, yet.

The performance might be okay in a 32/33 for a 3Ware, but for the cost of a
two port 3Ware SATA card you might want find a native PCIe solution, which
you probably were anyway.




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