Areca makes excellent PCI express cards - but probably have zero
support in Solaris/OpenSolaris. I use them in both Windows and Linux.
Works natively in FreeBSD too. They're the fastest cards on the market
I believe still.
However probably not very appropriate for this since it's a Solaris-based
Hi David,
Depending on the I/O you're doing the X4100/X4200 are much better
suited because of the dual HyperTransport buses. As a storage box with
GigE outputs you've got a lot more I/O capacity with two HT buses than
one. That plus the X4100 is just a more solid box. The X2100 M2 while
a vast im
> Not to be picky, but the X2100 and X2200 series are
> NOT
> designed/targeted for disk serving (they don't even
> have redundant power
> supplies). They're compute-boxes. The X4100/X4200
> are what you are
> looking for to get a flexible box more oriented
> towards disk i/o and
> expansion.
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