Hi, >> Short story, if you need hardware RAID, buy an Areca. It's rock, >> rock, rock >> solid. In fact, I just upgraded my box to 4.6, prior to the upgrade I >> was >> running 4.3 on a degraded RAID1 -- one drive completely failed --for 5 >> weeks >> without ever noticing (full disclosure, it was my own fault for not >> setting >> up sensorsd to see the failure)! >> > I can't speak as to how they compare with mfi but +1 for Areca. Had an > array and possibly a controller fail due to over heating and their > support was great. Emailed in and got a guy on the phone from Taiwan the > next day who talked me through steps to recover, for free. > > Use the 4-port mostly for mirroring and 8-port for larger raid6 arrays. > Works with bio/sensors.
Thanks for all the information and suggestions, it definitly helped a lot! Michael
