On Sun, May 8, 2016 8:20 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > 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, thanks for your insights! I could not even imagine that my feelings would be the same about virtually everything... (and this pessimism prompted me to ask others, but I still hope to hear something optimistic). Anybody else, anything..? Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++