Bent Terp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote: >> some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage >> volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any recommendations as far >> as hardware? > > I'm kind of partial to Areca raid controllers, you can get up to 24 > ports, so that can be as much as 20 TB (that's real world terabytes, > not hardware manufacturer's) in a raid 6 with hot-spare using 1000 GB > drives. > I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case. http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.html Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how Adaptec and Areca look now?