[KLUG Hardware] hardware RAID cards (was Informal Survey)

[Mike Williams]

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> From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org> Cc: 
> members@kalamazoolinux.org, Adam Bultman <adamb@glaven.org> Subject: 
> [KLUG Hardware] Re: [KLUG Members] Informal Survey Reply-To: 
> hardware@kalamazoolinux.org
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>For low-cost, but fast and redundant storage, I highly recommend you investigate
>3Ware Escalade ATA RAID controllers.  They are full-up ASIC+SRAM driven boards,
>and not "trick BIOS" ones like the Promise FastTrak or mainboard-integrated ones.
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Anybody know of any real world performance tests on these real RAID 
cards?  I've seen some of them for about $250, but I have no idea how 
they compare to each other.  Or even how they compare to a Promise 
FastTrak except that they can do RAID 5.  I've been all over 
storagereview.com and Toms Hardware Guide without success.  I keep 
hoping Maximum PC will let a few of these into the lab, but so far they 
haven't.