[mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

[Steve Adeff]

On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> > James C. Dastrup <jc at dastrup.com> says:
> > > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X  64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA?
> > > Or, how about a PCI  64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA?
> >
> > People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xxx/9xxx-series
> > (SATA) cards, which all support 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X, the standard for
> > high-quality, reasonably-priced, true hardware RAID cards. (Or just
> > for JBOD, as I'm doing with two 7506-4 cards and eight 400GB ATA
> > drives I'm using in part for MythTV.)
>
> I *really* like the performance of my Areca ARC-1120 8 port SATA PCI-X
> card.  It beats the pants off of my 3ware 7450 and 8506.  I don't know
> how it compares to  the 9xxx-series controllers.  Unfortunately, the
> last time I checked the Areca folks hadn't got their drivers into the
> kernel tree (2.6.14-mumble).  It annoyed me to have to unpack the
> archive and tweak the Kconfig file, but I eventually got over it
> (mostly ;-).
>
> -- Trey

whoa, $600 for a controller card!  I think I can live with software RAID, 
rather spend the money on a faster cpu...

-- 
Steve