On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: > I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that > great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with > Dell servers as the PERC. The newest incarnations are better, but I > would try to get an Areca. The ones we have tested have displayed > fantastic > performance. They are fairly expensive in comparison, though. If > you're using ZFS in place of the RAID on the LSI MegaRAID, I'd > instead recommend other simpler SAS cards which are known to have > good driver support.
Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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