[mythtv-users] Another take on large-capacity disk enclosures
Boleslaw Ciesielski
bolek-mythtv at curl.com
Tue Jun 16 19:12:08 UTC 2009
Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 10:31:54 Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> The problem is they're not looking for hardware RAID at all, in addition
>> to the $400 price froogle comes up with. Better option might be this
>> one... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118100
>> It's fairly 'dumb' as far as hardware RAID goes, and about twice the
>> price of the Supermicro controller, but it's cheaper and will probably
>> give better performance than low end Promise and HighPoint cards. It's
>> also multilane, so you need breakout cables or a compatible backplane.
>
> Looks like a nice unit. It's more expensive than the SuperMicro card because
> it's a PCI-Express SAS controller the S/M is a PCI-X SATA controller, apples
> and oranges.
>
> But it's the best PCI-Express card I've seen, thanks for the pointer.
This one is very similar (same chipset, I think) but cheaper:
http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-usas-l8i~7SUPM18C.htm
>>> 2x SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card ($99)
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
Anyone know what SATA chipset is on this card?
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