On 5/8/2016 6:10 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Can we leave this thread just to thoughts I > solicited about which of hardware RAID card manufacturers will still > exists in close future. predicting the future? yeah, well. there are really only two choices today, Adaptec and Avago (formerly LSI, they also control the former Areca product line). I've not been very happy with the level of support Avago is offeriong for older products, and I've *never* liked Adaptec. Whoops, Avago is now Broadcom, a company I like even less for broken closed source firmware and total lack of hardware documentation. There's a pile of 2nd tier players like Promise, and so forth, I won't touch these with a 10 foot pole. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz