16x SATA RAID card

[doormat]

I just noticed this at newegg and hadn't seen anything for it before anywhere...

Adaptec 16 port SATA RAID card...

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-21610SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSerial+ATA%2fRAID+Controllers

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=16-103-171&depa=0

Thats freakin amazing!!! With 250GB drives at RAID 5 its 3.75TB (minus the funny 2^30 vs 10^9 stuff), and with 400GB drives at RAID 5 its over 6TB. Six Terabytes. :eek:

[Snugglebear]

And 64MB of cache to support it all.

[doormat]

Yea, but I'm looking at capacity a lot more than I'm looking at performance... its just my point of view I guess.

[aug1516]

At $995.00 MSRP I'm wondering how many companies will really look at this over a traditional SCSI raid setup.

[Snugglebear]

As near-line backup or an archive server it wouldn't be too bad, but you wouldn't catch me throwing a database or high-load SMB/NFS server on it. Of course if the budget is really tight, maybe, but nothing mission critical.

[ambit]

Adaptec's PATA RAID cards weren't all that hot perfomance-wise. Neither were their U160 RAID cards.
Anyone read anything on this card? I'd much rather stick with 3Ware in the time being.

[umbra]

forget 250's get 16 400 gig hitachi or 16 raptores. woah justt had a sizzy spell because tha's too damn fast