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New 3ware Serial ATA II Hardware RAID Controllers!!

Support of Port Multiplier is, in my mind, the most newsworthy bit of information.
 
Well, shit. Guess I should have waited another 2 months :)

-Larry
 
Looks to be about $450 to $500. About the same as the 9500S (eight port versions).

Larry
 
Order said:
It got a pretty shitty review from gamepc.com, sadly.
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=9550sx4lp&page=1
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Not just a negative review, also a bad one. They don't mention Areca's raid 6 support, for example, which would be a big selling point for me. With 24 disks one set of parity is not enough. And look at this graph - that just reeks of bad testing methods for some reason. There should be some sort of trend.

But apparently the NCQ support didn't work, the stability associated with 3ware is gone, it requires special cables, the first one came DOA, initiating the array took 3x as long as the Areca card, and it had no advantage over the software raid in CPU usage or speed in raid 5. And it doesn't work in 32-bit slots, which is a pain for people trying to keep their file servers cheap.

In summary, it might be a decent card but I wouldn't trust GamePC's review as far as I can throw it. Which is a project I'll be undertaking for future raid card reviews from them.

 
Good thing I didn't wait then :)

-Larry

unhappy_mage said:
Not just a negative review, also a bad one. They don't mention Areca's raid 6 support, for example, which would be a big selling point for me. With 24 disks one set of parity is not enough. And look at this graph - that just reeks of bad testing methods for some reason. There should be some sort of trend.

But apparently the NCQ support didn't work, the stability associated with 3ware is gone, it requires special cables, the first one came DOA, initiating the array took 3x as long as the Areca card, and it had no advantage over the software raid in CPU usage or speed in raid 5. And it doesn't work in 32-bit slots, which is a pain for people trying to keep their file servers cheap.

In summary, it might be a decent card but I wouldn't trust GamePC's review as far as I can throw it. Which is a project I'll be undertaking for future raid card reviews from them.

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Not to mention the Arecas are available in PCI-E as well so people with SLI mobos that don't want SLI can use them in one of the x8 slots.
 
Someone here should get a card at test it.. DL? :D

This is probably the first device to satisfy SATA 2.5 standards too.

The 4 port model would be neat, how many drives can each port support? 4? 15? And how much are port multipliers?
 
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