[Discuss] trying to get quotes on a server.....

[Paul Nienaber]

People don't buy it for SATA, so nobody bothers caring, probably.  They 
might bother once you can get port multiplers easily.  I'm also not sure 
that that document is totally up-to-date.

Anyways (while I currently own two Adaptec U160 cards), I can't be 
bothered with Adaptec these days.  Their front page is plastered with 
them bragging about beating most of the rest of the industry -- except 
they conveniently don't mention Areca.  They also don't seem to have 
been bothered making more than one of their cards in a PCIe variant, 
while the rest of the industry appears more or less on the ball with 
that one.  A once-useful company replaced by a marketing machine.  Meh.

~p

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> So why don't I see adaptec on that website?  The 4805SAS does sata...
>
> I have no problem with the 3ware cards.  They've always worked great
> and have had the features I've needed.
>
> On 5/3/06, Paul Nienaber <phox at phox.ca> wrote:
>> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks, Chris, for that excellent up-to-date reference, but I think 
>> your
>> > characterization of "quite hit or miss" gives an incorrect negative
>> > impression (unless you interpret that to mean some manufacturers are
>> > solid
>> > hits and some are misses).
>> Bingo. And all of the commodity onboard stuff that I have run into in
>> the last 2 years (VIA, nVidia, Silicon Image) is supported. Watch out
>> for weird off-brand stuff (as Chris pointed out to me, the
>> ServerWorks/BCM stuff doesn't seem to be supported).
>>
>>
>>
>> David Bronaugh wrote:
>> > Chris Kloosterman wrote:
>> >> http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html
>> >>
>> >> It's quite hit and miss. You will pretty much definitely have to use
>> >> software raid.
>> >>
>> > Unless you go 3Ware, that's not exactly a hardship.
>> Meh @ 3ware. They haven't bothered keeping up with the times, as far as
>> I'm concerned. If I was doing servery stuff I would take a good solid
>> look (as I already have for my own purposes, but decided against for
>> now) Areca and Promise's hardware RAID6 offerings.
>>
>> ~p
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