RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

From: Calvin (calvin_at_areca.us)
Date: 10/29/05 

To: "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>, "'Francisco'" <francisco@natserv.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:25:08 -0700

Francisco,

You can buy it directly from us. Please let me know PCI-X or PCI-Express
card you might need and how many ports, or the product number if you
know. I will give you the quotation.

Best regards,
Calvin Chen
Areca USA,Inc.
www.areca.us
(510) 438-0288 (w)
(510) 991-9928 (Fax)
(510) 676-7740 (cell)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net]
Sent: 10/28/2005 9:24 PM
To: Francisco
Cc: FreeBSD Performance
Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

At 12:11 AM 29/10/2005, Francisco wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the
>>fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD
>>support and they are FAST
>>
>>http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm
>
>Where did you get your area controller Mike?
>Looking at their site it seems as if one could buy directly from
>them, but did not find any prices.

Hi,
         I get them directly from Areca. I have bcc'd the Calvin
(the guy I have dealt with) so he can contact you. Like I said
before, they have been great cards for me under FreeBSD. Linux
performs well too, but is a bit of a pain as its not part of the
default kernel. But performance has been great and the extremely
stable. We are going to try some of the PCI-e versions next
month. My experience to date has been with the PCI-X versions only.

I finally got my 3ware 9500SX today and should have time to test next
week as I dont have a spare PCI-X board in the lab right now. Should
be able to get a decent comparison performance wise between the two
boards with respect to FreeBSD.

         ---Mike

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