Accusys = Areca clone?

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houkouonchi

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I just noticed this new brand I have never heard of on newegg. They are significantly cheaper and look exactly like areca controllers:

compare
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816121017

with:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151032

I am guessing the picture is wrong though since it appears to be the 24 drive model.

Looks like neweggs link to their site is bad. This one works for me:

http://www.accusys.com.tw/ProductIt...ct=35&PID=ACS-61100&PName=PCIe-SATA2x12/16/24

shows they are IOP341 just like the areca, interesting. Also the snapshot feature sounds interesting as well.
 
I would say that both companies use a "reference" design provided by Intel. You see this a lot with video cards where ATI cards look identical to (or VERY similar to) the ones from other companies that "design" video cards.

The company that provides the processor (Intel) in this case provide a "reference" design to their clients, and often those clients will just use 99% of that design.
 
I figured intel just provided the chip and they didn't actually have any type of reference board (like with vid cards and i completely understand what you are saying there). I have seen lots of raid controllers that used the same intel IOP333 or IOP348 and they have never looked all that similar to me until now. It makes sense if there is just a reference design that they are going off of and only areca/accusys is following it very closely.
 
houkouonchi said:
I figured intel just provided the chip and they didn't actually have any type of reference board (like with vid cards and i completely understand what you are saying there). I have seen lots of raid controllers that used the same intel IOP333 or IOP348 and they have never looked all that similar to me until now. It makes sense if there is just a reference design that they are going off of and only areca/accusys is following it very closely.
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Does Intel make large amounts of controller cards? It wouldn't make much sense to me if they would go through the trouble of designing a reference design if they weren't going to be in the market at all...

Then again, it could be for engineering purposes for third-party vendors that use the IOP333 or IOP348 processors; Intel definitely makes reference boards for their new chipsets, and third party companies greatly expand upon its capabilities over time.
 
Yep, confirmed with what ockie said. Not that anything he says needs confirming

Parent company is tekram, areca is the us company, tekram the european one, and this accusys apparently another line for canada and the states
 
Since Newegg carries both, but the Accusys is significantly cheaper...
 
at first glance the accusys is missing some features like out of band managment
 
axan said:
at first glance the accusys is missing some features like out of band managment
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Yeah, accusys is basically like Toyota, Areca is like Lexus. Same cars, different features and price.

Thats my car analogy and I think it fits well. :)
 
If you are gonna spend 600+ on a RAID card why not just spend the extra $100 to get the full deal?
 
Because not spending the extra $100 is a fourteen percent savings.
 
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