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 at 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Jason Luck favors the prepared. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080506/51b6a7ae/attachment-0005.html>