On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer <r...@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). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
