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From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
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On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
>
> >> Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered...
> >> sigh.
> >>
> >> And it's NOT rare to see giant locked processes on a heavily loaded web
> >> server.
> >>
> >
> > No Giants Here:
> > arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)
> >> mem 0xc8400000-0xc8400fff,0xc8800000-0xc8bfffff irq 16 at device 14.0
>
> I've never had an ARECA card :)
>

They use Intel's XScale I/O Processors and they can do RAID6, with
RAID6 you can have two simultaneous drive failures an still be ok.
Very good / fast / expensive cards... a fully decked out ARC-1280ML
will set you back 2 grand, worth every penny.

http://www.intel.com/design/iio/index.htm
US Distributor for Areca products:
http://www.topmicrousa.com/areca-raid-cards.html