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View Poll Results: Which SATA Raid controller would you recommend
3Ware 1 33.33%
Adaptec 2 66.67%
Areca 0 0%
Other 0 0%
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Old 03-05-2007, 05:57 AM
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Default Choosing a sata RAID controller
Looking for recommendations for a sata raid controller to control a group of 4 western digital 10k raptor hard drives.

This could either be:
A single RAID 10 array for performance + speed (I've never used raid 10)
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A RAID 1 array for data archive every night
A RAID 0 array for outright performance dealing with large corel and photoshop files throughout the day
Possibly another RAID 0 array for printer spool and scratch disk (better to separate scratch from work disk, or having even more disks in a single raid-0 array?)
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Old 03-06-2007, 05:39 AM
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Adaptec are stable -- they build server grade for years (reputation built on scsi and scsi raid server adapters and controllers). The Adaptec 2820SA adapter has been a reliable workhorse so far.

3ware became famous for their SATA raid controllers and are a benchmark in the industry for sata raid specifically.

Areca has a following now for it's blazing fast sata raid performance -- it's possibly the most recommended on forums like forums.2cpu.com for example.
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Old 03-06-2007, 05:41 AM
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Even though there is a negligable performance advantage and it's expensive per MB, I like the simplicity of RAID-1. In a worst case you're not totally dependent on the raid controller and as long as the controller doesn't corrupte the data in failure, either drive of the raid-1 set can be simply read on another controller if necessary.
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