The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt.
and, more importantly, for the thread at hand, this guy wants an ARCHIVE server, where performance is quite secondary, reliablity and data retention are more important.
If he had the budget, I'd be suggesting looking at something like Copan's MAID system.
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