hardware for home use large storage

[Dan Langille]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote:
>> I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that
>> great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with
>> Dell servers as the PERC.  The newest incarnations are better, but I
>> would try to get an Areca.  The ones we have tested have displayed
>> fantastic
>> performance.  They are fairly expensive in comparison, though.  If
>> you're using ZFS in place of the RAID on the LSI MegaRAID, I'd
>> instead recommend other simpler SAS cards which are known to have
>> good driver support.
> 
> Why even bother with the LSI card at all?
> That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to 
> use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?)

Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the base OS, and one optical.  I 
want a minimum of 8 slots.