Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer <rink at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
>> I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID),
>> and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD.  Any
>> comments on their quality/performance/reliability?
>
> I have got an Areca ARC-1110 4x SATA2 PCI-X card in my server, and I'm
> quite impressed with the performance; these cards do very well in terms
> I/O operations per second and the driver has been rock solid for me. The
> only downside is that they are quite expensive (but well worth it, IMO)

Compared to a 3Ware 9550SXU controller, these are cheap.  The Areca is
only $500 (open-box) or $700 (new) on newegg.ca.  The 3Ware cards are
over $1000, with the PCIe versions being over $1200 (which is what
started me on this journey -- hardware budgets are getting smaller and
smaller each year).

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com