George Georgalis wrote:
there is a BSD driver for Areca SATA-II hardware
raid controllers (arc) that supports hot swap and is
OS manageable. It was written for OpenBSD, ported to
FreeBSD and I have good information that the port to
NetBSD is done, but it's not publically available
just yet. Not sure of Linux support for that one.
SATA-II is a misnomer; SATA-II was the name of the committee that
designed the SATA 3.0Gbps spec.
this is supported under linux using the arcmsr driver. It's fully
supported and in-kernel since 2.6.19.
i make extensive use of these controllers; they come highly recommended.
If you want a hardware raid solution, look to areca. Some of the
features of the cards are:
800MHz intel IOP831 DMA CPU (this does all the RAID calculations)
256MB ECC/R DDR-667 onboard (upgradeable to 2GB using commodity DIMMs)
BBWC (battery-backed write cache) option
Ethernet port for out-of-band configuration and management (*VERY* handy)
Blazingly fast RAID 1/10/3/5/6 using SATA 1.5/3.0Gbps disks.
Port expanders/multiplexers are supported.
Chassis integration with I2C failure/activity light control.
A 16-port ARC-1261ML board costs in the ballpark of $1000 including
multilane cables.
really - the list goes on and on. www.areca.com.tw. They're worth the money.
-kelsey
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