Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Thanks. That seems to clear fog a little bit. I still would like to hear > manufacturers/models here. My choices would be: Areca or LSI (bought out > by Intel, so former LSI chipset and microcode/firmware) and as SSD Samsung > Evo SATA III. Does anyone who used these in hardware RAID can offer any > bad experience description? It depends on your budget and on the hardware you plan to use the controller with, and on what you´re intending to do. I wouldn´t recommend using SSDs that are not explicitly rated for use with hardware RAID with hardware RAID. Samsung seems to have firmware bugs that makes the kernel/btrfs disable some features. I´d go with Intel SSDs and either use md-RAID or btrfs, but the reliability of btrfs is questionable, and md-RAID has a performance penalty.