Andreas Klemm wrote:
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good
Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller.
Thought its a good deal because it was cheap.
Thought, an ATA interface can't be that complicated anymore
so that its safe to buy a cheap product.
Turned out that I was very wrong with my theorie.
I ran into timeout problems, that couldn't be fixed.
After days and nights of troubleshooting and testing
I didn't get it to work reliably.
I replaced it by buying a more expensive Promise controller.
Since then I had zero problems.
Since that time I lost trust in HighPoint products.
The 366 was an exception, mostly. It was a borked piece of hardware in
a "new generation" of ATA controllers at a time when IIRC FreeBSD was on
the leading edge of major overhaul of ATA support. Modern HighPoint
controllers are decent for the price. I wouldn't put one in a server,
though. My servers use 3ware and Dell cards.
--
Darren Pilgrim
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