Peter Arremann wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2005 21:35, Mark Miksis wrote: > >>I've been running the 3Ware card with the write cache turned off because >>I was nervous about not having any battery backup on the card itself. >>Turning the cache on seems to have completely solved my problem! I've >>been running heavy traffic (both reads and writes) for the last few >>hours and it's been rock solid and very fast. I guess I learned >>something today. I'm still not sure I'm comfortable running in this >>configuration, but I do have a UPS on the box. > > Very interesting - what sodimm are you using? Maybe its simply a defective > cache module... ? > I never looked at the sodimm - it's whatever the card came with. If it was bad, I'd expect the card to fail with the cache enabled, not the other way around. > > >>BTW, this means my 3Ware card is not available;) > > Oh darn :-) Was wanting one for home to play around with but not willing to > spend so much money just for yet another toy... :-D > > Peter. >
