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Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations
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At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, ray@redshift.com wrote:
>At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>| Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend
>| 64Bit PCIX.
>|
>|     Steve
>
>Hi Steve,
>
>  I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very 
> much.  It's very
>easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the default 
>Kernel.  You

Speaking of 3ware, has anyone tried out the new 9550SX ?  Price seems 
pretty good compared to the Areca and 3ware claims its much faster 
than their previous generation cards.

         ---Mike