Re: More tales of horror from the linux (HW) raid crypt

[bdameron@pivotlink.com]

I read this article some time ago. Note that they were testing the older Areca 
card with it's first firmware version. The new PCIe card has twice the CPU 
power and has worked out their initial bugs. The performance is enourmously 
improved. However the price is quit a lot higher than most. 

Brad Dameron
SeaTab Software
www.seatab.com


Quoting Harry Mangalam <hjm@tacgi.com>:

> Also a good point - I was just discussing this in another thread.
> Areca makes a number of SATA RAID controllers - some are SCSI-SATA, some are
> 
> PCI-X-SATA, some are PCIe-SATA.  
> 
> Areca supplied this URL to a relatively long review of recent SATA and SCSI 
> controllers - it's worth a read.  And surprisingly, the SATA controllers do 
> pretty well against the SCSI controllers.
> 
> http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/1
> 
> hjm
> 
> On Wednesday 22 June 2005 3:00 pm, Ming Zhang wrote:
> > will this 24 port card itself will be a bottleneck?
> >
> > ming
> >
> 
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> Cheers, Harry
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