On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Luke Lonergan <llonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Arecas are a lot faster than the 9550, more noticeable with disk counts > from 12 on up. At 8 disks you may not see much difference. > > The 3Ware 9650 is their answer to the Areca and it put the two a lot closer. Do you mean the areca 12xx series or the newer 1680? I was under the impression the difference in performance wasn't that big between teh 95xx 3wares and teh 12xx Arecas. We have a 1680i on order, with 16 15K RPM SAS drives. I'll let you guys know how it runs. > FWIW – we got some Arecas at one point and had trouble getting them > configured and working properly. I've heard the SAS/SATA Arecas don't get along well with some SATA drives, but generally are quite reliable on SAS. this was in a number of forum posts on different hardware and linux sites repeated by different folks over and over.
