"Inexpensive" true hardware RAID?

[JerryH]

Has anyone tried one of these adapters?

http://www.arcoide.com/products/raidcontrollers/525baymount.html

According to the specs, it is OS Independent and Platform Independent, supporting up to 4 drives. However, the speeds top out at ATA-66.

A quick search from resellers shows $231 for the card - would that put it towards the left side of the bell curve for prices of true-hardware raid?

[Dr Mordrid]

hummmdeeedummdeeedummmm....NDA's......dammit......

Dr. Mordrid

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
hummmdeeedummdeeedummmm....NDA's......dammit......

Dr. Mordrid

phbbbbb..........
chuck

[JerryH]

Well, Dr., could you disclose anything not disallowed by said NDA?

[Dr Mordrid]

hmmm......

How about a card with a 32-256 meg SDRAM onboard disk cache?

Remote notification, management & recovery?

Dr. Mordrid

[JerryH]

I see....curiouser and curiouser...

Why do I get this feeling that my quest for a good RAID card should wait awhile longer?

[Dr Mordrid]

Good idea

Dr. Mordrid

[Dr Mordrid]

Update: check my post on the new Promise SX4000 RAID 0, 1, 3 & 5 card.

They released it sooner than I thought they would.

Dr. Mordrid