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On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Chris Smart wrote: |
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> I will be ordering an Areca card over the next two weeks for a new |
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> dual opteron system. |
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> Areca 1110, 4 port PCI-X to SATA Raid controller running 4 x 300gb |
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> Seagate 7200.8 drives in raid 5. |
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> If you can wait that long I can give you some feedback. |
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sounds great, Chris! I'd love to hear your experiences. |
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> FYI, the Areca driver has made it into mm-sources 2.6.11, so might be |
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> found in the stable kernel soon. |
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> They do release source driver though, so for us Gentooists that is a |
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> good thing. |
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indeed. I'd definitely be looking to compile it into a 2.4.28 kernel, |
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which is my current kernel of choice on servers. |
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cheers, |
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- Jared |
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> Jared Klett wrote: |
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>> hello list, |
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>> the time has come for me to put together some new Gentoo servers, |
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>> and I was wondering: |
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>> 1. Has anyone gotten a chance to test out an Areca SATA RAID card |
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>> under Gentoo? |
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>> 2. If so, where did you buy it? I can't seem to locate any |
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>> distributors in the US. |
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>> - I located one in the UK, but $121 for shipping is a bit much |
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>> 3. Is there a marked performance improvement over 3ware or Megaraid |
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>> controllers? |
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>> - I did read the reviews on Tom's Hardware and Tweakers.net - I'd |
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>> like real, end-user feedback |
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>> 4. Are you doing RAID-5 or RAID-6 on the Areca? |
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>> kind of a long shot, but I'm curious to hear anything before I |
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>> start placing orders for more 3ware cards. which are great, but I'm |
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>> always looking to squeeze more performance and space out of my |
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>> hardware. :) |
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>> RAID-6 would be very cool. it pains me a little to lose space in |
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>> favor of fault tolerance with RAID-10. |
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>> reviews and distributors: |
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>> http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/29 |
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>> http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm |
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>> http://www.webconnexxion.com/raid/product_info.php? |
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>> products_id=231{1}3{5}19{2}6 |
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>> cheers, |
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>> - Jared |
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