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
ooh. they support it? cool. i'll have to explore that option now.
however i still really want eSATA.
On 1/23/07, Samuel Hexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've got two Areca ARC-1261ML cards (PCI-E x8, up to 16 SATA disks each)
running a 12TB zpool on snv54 and Areca's arcmsr driver. They're a
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.
That much makes
Hi David,
Glad to help! I don't want to bad-mouth the X2100 M2s that much,
because they have been solid. I believe the M2s are made/designed just
for Sun by Quanta Computer (http://www.quanta.com.tw/e_default.htm)
whereas the mobos in the original X2100 was Tyan Tiger with some
slight
