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