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January 22, 2005
already thinking about my next RAID box
The 24 pin to 20 pin adapter didn't arrive today (monday), but I am already thinking about my next RAID box. I want a BIG one with hot swapable drives, 12-16 of them and that will mean having to go with hardware RAID. Tom's Hardware has a current review of 3Ware, Highpoint and Raidcore's newest offerings. Tom's Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Multi-channel RAID for SATA: 3Ware, Highpoint and Raidcore/Broadcom - Conclusion. 3Ware comes out on top due to their hardware implementation of nearly everything leaving load off the processor and allowing you to downsize those parts and make up for the higher costs.
I will design one of these next. In an extensive search today the maximum SATA controllers I found on a Motherboard was 10 (Supermicro) but that only offered RAID 0 or 1. For performance AND security/redundancy you need RAID 5 or better 6. Would be nice if someone put four of the Silicon Image 4 port SATA controllers on a motherboard. They support RAID5. But then you have the problem of spanning controllers to create a single volume. There is software to do that with the 3Ware but I haven't found such software with MB RAID. In fact I haven't found any configuration software for those things yet (but then again I haven't gotten any power in the box either).
Posted by Martin at January 22, 2005 8:30 PM
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