On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > > > People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xxx/9xxx-series > > (SATA) cards, which all support 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X, the standard for > > high-quality, reasonably-priced, true hardware RAID cards. (Or just > > for JBOD, as I'm doing with two 7506-4 cards and eight 400GB ATA > > drives I'm using in part for MythTV.) > > I *really* like the performance of my Areca ARC-1120 8 port SATA PCI-X > card. It beats the pants off of my 3ware 7450 and 8506. I don't know > how it compares to the 9xxx-series controllers. Unfortunately, the > last time I checked the Areca folks hadn't got their drivers into the > kernel tree (2.6.14-mumble). It annoyed me to have to unpack the > archive and tweak the Kconfig file, but I eventually got over it > (mostly ;-). > > -- Trey
whoa, $600 for a controller card! I think I can live with software RAID, rather spend the money on a faster cpu... -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
