SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

[Calvin]

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 at 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