Server Hardware.

[Simon]

Well, for one, as far as I can tell, LSI has stopped developing Mylex cards,
so only the old cards are available. Second, and as I recall, in the past,
MegaRAID cards were below the quality of Mylex, which is why we went
with Mylex over MegaRAID cards. However, and perhaps, MegaRAID
SCSI 320 series kicks ass. Any input? like I said, I'm just looking for newer
solution. The reason why I asked about Adaptec zero channel series is
because they are supported by Supermicro, the motherboards we primarily
use for our servers. The idea of getting a barebone server where you don't
have to mess with custom-order cabling is very attractive. And in 1U servers,
this frees up valuable expansion slot and again avoids messy cabling.

-Simon

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:07:03 -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:

>Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 15:14 , 
>Simon missed achieving immortality when he said:
>
>
>> Yes, Mylex are great, that's what we have been using thus far.
>> However, Mylex is no longer in business as LSI Logic acquired
>> them. So now, we are looking for different (perhaps better) solution.
>
>> Perhaps someone put those zero channel controllers to a good
>> beating and can share their experience.
>
>What problems do you see with LSI.  LSI Logic acuiring the business
>is just "SCSI coming home".  NCR originally developed most of the
>SCSI as I recall, and LSI is the old NCR group - so if any of the
>original team is stil there that means they have more years of
>knowledge than other vendors.
>
>I'm just asking this as question - having no hands on use of their
>product and just knowhing their backgroun.
>
>Bill
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