Promise SX6000 controller

[David McNett]

On 05-Feb-2004, Tom Glover wrote:
> Some questions on the Promise Supertrak SX6000 before I go and spend money
> on it ....

I haven't worked with the SX6000 specifically, but in my testing I found 
the Promise and the Highpoint cards to be erratic during drive failures.
The data was safe but it was not difficult to induce a system lockup 
by disabling one of the drives in a raid1 configuration.

I went with a 3ware card (hypermicro.com is a good vendor) which I found to
be nearly bulletproof.

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