Re: RAID controllers
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Anybody here has an experience with Sil3114 or Areca RAID SATA
> controllers?
>
> I'm wondering which one is best on AMD64, or if I stick with a 3Ware
> Escalade 8600 instead.
>
> I'm planning to use Debian Sarge, of course.
I haven't used any of them, but from what I have read, the 3ware drivers
are very mature and have been around for a while. The Areca drivers I
suspect you have to compile and install yourself (making installing
somewhat more difficult on one). The few benchmarks I have seen
indicate the 3ware is easily the fastest of them.
The Sil3114 is of course NOT a hardware raid controller. It is
proprietary software raid, and really not recomended in general. dmraid
is not well supported yet, which is what you would need to use that
stuff.
Len Sorensen
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