Good points and good info; I'll look into the areca products a bit more. Just yesterday I looked at the 16 tray Chenbro/Areca combo: http://www.chenbro.com.tw/Chenbro_Newsletter/Vol21_rm321.htm I'll read up on the Areca controllers. Thanks hjm On Wednesday 22 June 2005 2:09 pm, Brad Dameron wrote: > And just for the record, look at the Areca SATA RAID cards. They have 16 > and even 24 port cards if you want very large arrays. The cards greatly > out perform the 3ware cards in READ/WRITE performance. They even offer > RAID6. Just look at the processor on the ARC-12xx series. > > Just my 2 cents. Hope it helps. > > Brad Dameron > SeaTab Software > www.seatab.com > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx <<plain text preferred>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html