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Hey Jared, |
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I will be ordering an Areca card over the next two weeks for a new dual |
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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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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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Cheers, |
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Chris |
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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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