Fasttrak S150 SX4 - SATA RAID5

[Dr Mordrid]

Actually capable of JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and RAID5;

http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=112&familyId=2

Win2000/2003, XP, Novell, Free BSD, Red Hat 8/9 and SuSE.

Dr. Mordrid

[Technoid]

Looks nice

[Chucky Cheese]

Very Nice!!!

...that makes me want to start building another system, and i was planning to go sata on the hard disk anyways! time to say by to scsi.

thanks doc!


cc

[Gurm]

Yeah I might RAID again, now that Seagate is making 8MB dead silent Barracuda V's in SATA flavor.

- Gurm

[Kurt]

or get WD Raptors 74GB...

[UtwigMU]

What about 3ware stuff?

If I was serious about RAID5, I'd go 3ware.

http://3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp

[Dr Mordrid]

Promise does faster sequential writes in RAID5, at least with the SX-4000. Most RAID5's don't do sequential writes much faster than a single HDD, but the SX-4000 writes almost as fast as a RAID0.

Looks like some testing is in order

Dr. Mordrid

[Kooldino]

Hmm, the page wouldn't load for me. Although Daemorok was telling me that he was thinking of getting some high end SATA RAID card...but it wasn't a promise. Supposedly it's the nicest card out?

[Dr Mordrid]

3Ware makes really nice stuff, but at a cost. The Promise card is likely to be half the cost.

Dr. Mordrid

[daemorok]

generally promise and highpoint are crap compared to these brands:

3ware - http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp
mylex/lsi logic - http://www.lsilogic.com/products/sto...erial_ata.html

http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/mylex.html

ATTO - I am still trying to find a product listing of their cards... a friend recommened them, supposedly they manufacture the chips that most of the other brands use.

I dont know about raid5 speeds really, I only have experience with 0,1, and 0+1

To be fair, I am kind of bias against highpoint and promise, since i have use several of their raid cards and always had bad results.

edit: forgot a link

[borat]

Originally posted by Kurt
or get WD Raptors 74GB...

read my thoughts exactly, silence would be the ideal but ive tried all that zalman shit and no matter what you do with it the sound of the fans is always there, im not prepared to have bits of hose stickin out of my PC so ive accepted that ive got to put up with it and may as well have the fastest stuff i can afford rather than the quietest.

[daemorok]

I am looking to build a 0+1 array... at some point
drives: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...ption=WD2500JD

controller choices:

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=16-116-022&refer=pr1c3watch

http://www.scsi4me.com/index.php?menu=menu_scsi&pid=3076&display=SATA150-4.htm

[daemorok]

Almost forgot to correct myself, I always forget this. Mylex is just one line of cards that LSI Logic produces, and they are all SCSI cards.

[GT98]

Not bad for about $180 bucks

[agallag]

Cool. I've been looking for something like this that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Eagerly awaiting your review Doc.