From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: /dev/md2 stopped after changing SAS controller Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 01:12:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4DD0C059.4010102@hardwarefreak.com> References: <20110513202900.GA1926@apartia.fr> <4DCE99D0.1010900@hardwarefreak.com> <20110514151812.GA3074@apartia.fr> <4DCEC7C0.80306@hardwarefreak.com> <20110514191532.GA15753@apartia.fr> <4DCF12E1.1020809@hardwarefreak.com> <4DCFE337.7090306@gmail.com> <20110515143718.GA8667@apartia.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110515143718.GA8667@apartia.fr> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 5/15/2011 9:37 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Someone pointed me to ARECA non-raid controllers: > > http://www.areca.com.tw/products/sasnoneraid3g.htm > > Does anyone have good or bad experiences with these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151061 Read the 3 reviews. Probably best to stay away from the Areca JBOD HBAs. All 4 use a Marvell chip. Many NewEgg reviews are valuable, as in this case. Lest anyone denigrate the validity of quoting NewEgg due to their "perceived customer base", note that today's NewEgg ships plenty of mid/upper range gear (see links below) into corporations and universities, including blade chassis/blades, FC and converged switches, FC disk arrays, LTO libraries, etc. They now have a business division that competes to a degree with the likes of CDW et al. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=hewlett%20packard&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=ibm&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100 -- Stan