[CentOS] Raid Cards

[Feizhou]

Lazy wrote:
> 2006/6/9, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>:
>> > There was some nice performance comparison betwean linux compatible
>> > sata raid cards and areca performed really well. If my memory serves
>> > me well it was significantly faster then 3ware.
>> > Can't find the url now :(. So i have no arguments to support it now.
>> > But certainly areca it's worth a try.
>> This looks more like an alternative to 3ware and not to HP/Promise bios
>> on an adapter 'raid' cards.
> Yes. I was giving an alternative to 3ware.
> 

Just an update.

Areca is not quite there yet with 3ware with regard to driver quality 
according to what I read from posts to LKML.

That is in the eyes of the kernel maintainers and developers but it is 
very near to inclusion into the mainline kernel after having been in the 
-mm kernel for over a year.