Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:53:41 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 vs Adeptec 2820 for RAID 6 Message-ID: <A6BBCEDA-9CA4-45BC-98BA-B2AC66E89113@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200602241216.00547.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> References: <200602241216.00547.work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
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On Feb 24, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Ashley Moran wrote: > I'm trying to decide whether to go with an Areca ARC-1120 or an > Adeptec 2820 > for a database server. The Promise SuperTrak EX8350 is out of the > question > because it lacks FreeBSD support. I would wonder about Adaptec support. Areca is officially supporting FreeBSD (and Solaris 10 and others). I have a 12 port PCI-X version of the Areca but not yet installed. My correspondence with Areca before I got it was very good. They were quite responsive. I have been using a lot of adaptec boards over the last 5 years (2100S x 2, 2200S, 2410SA x a few, 2400A in one machine). They work fine but Adaptec provides no support for FreeBSD and the released utilities may or may not work so well as FreeBSD matures but the utilities stay at old versions... best Chad > > One server supplier says customer's he's supplie with ARC boards > were unhappy > with them, but didn't give any specific reasons. Does anyone have any > experience with either of these on FBSD? > > There's a long comparison of the three cards at > http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/02/ > safer_6_for_raid_controllers/ . The > Areca board canes the others performance-wise but I want to know if > it will > be stable for the next however many years. > > Thanks > Ashley > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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