On Feb 24, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Ashley Moran wrote:
I'm trying to decide whether to go with an Areca ARC-1120 or an
Adeptec 2820
for a database server. The Promise SuperTrak EX8350 is out of the
question
because it lacks FreeBSD support.
I would wonder about Adaptec support. Areca is officially supporting
FreeBSD (and Solaris 10 and others).
I have a 12 port PCI-X version of the Areca but not yet installed.
My correspondence with Areca before I got it was very good. They
were quite responsive.
I have been using a lot of adaptec boards over the last 5 years
(2100S x 2, 2200S, 2410SA x a few, 2400A in one machine). They work
fine but Adaptec provides no support for FreeBSD and the released
utilities may or may not work so well as FreeBSD matures but the
utilities stay at old versions...
best
Chad
One server supplier says customer's he's supplie with ARC boards
were unhappy
with them, but didn't give any specific reasons. Does anyone have any
experience with either of these on FBSD?
There's a long comparison of the three cards at
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/02/
safer_6_for_raid_controllers/ . The
Areca board canes the others performance-wise but I want to know if
it will
be stable for the next however many years.
Thanks
Ashley
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