On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've been spending the last couple of days extensively looking at various
options for RAID and getting some storage system in place. Performance is not
really a BIG issue, but I also don't want to have things hecticly slow either.
This will be a NAS type of implementation so speed would be bound by relatively
speaking slow network connections in any case...
Now first things first as well, I did look at Fiber Channels too - and the
tecnology is just to expensive and complex for a home type implementation that
I want this for.
Ideally, I'd like to start at 2TB of storage (yes, those movies must go
somewhere!), but I'd like to be able to grow this as times go by... I also
definately want redundancy on the data, as I just lost 80GB of precious data
when ironically, a 160GB SATA Seagate went out under me.
Now SCSI I know, is more expensive than SATA. Whether it provides beter
performance than SATA I'm still uncertain off, but gut would tell me that due
to the cost factor, SCSI *should* run away as far as speed is concerned. But
also as I said previously, speed and performance is not a priority for my
implementation and therefore it has very little weight. This makes me look at
SATA then therefore.
My problem with SATA, is the whole 1 Port, 1 Drive scenario. I've looked at the
Adaptec 16 Port SATA Controller. The reviews I managed to get on that card on
the Internet, paints a very grim picture. Buggered Firmware, the controller
destroys drives, and general sluggish performance. Is anyone using this card
that can perhaps give me a better picture?
You want the Areca ARC-1160-ML (ML for Multi-Lane) card:
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm
http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2350
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html
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