On Apr 4, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
If you don't care about such things, it may actually be possible to build a similar set-up as your SATA-system with 12 or 16 15k rpm SAS disks or 10k WD Raptor disks. For the sata-solution you can also consider a 24-port Areca card.
fwiw, I've had horrible experiences with areca drivers on linux. I've found them to be unreliable when used with dual AMD64 processors 4+ GB of ram. I've tried kernels 2.16 up to 2.19... intermittent yet inevitable ext3 corruptions. 3ware cards, on the other hand, have been rock solid.
-jay
