4-port SATA RAID - 3ware 8506-4LP vs Adaptec 2410SA vs LSI MegaRAID 150-4 vs ???

[Dan Moore]

Greetings,

I'm currently in the market for a 4-drive SATA controller. Anyone
have any especially good or bad experiences or, even better,
comparisons between the 3ware 8506-4LP, Adaptec 2410SA, or LSI
MegaRAID 150-4? Benchmarks and other alternatives especially welcome.
My primary concerns are operation under Linux, and all of them seem
to be very well supported, and reliability. As of now, other than the
slightly lower price of the LSI, I'm not seeing any reason to choose
one over any other.

I plan to fill in this chart as I get information:

http://moore.cx/experiences/hardware_sata_raid.html

Thanks.

Dan Moore

 

[Sunny]

Greetings,

I'm currently in the market for a 4-drive SATA controller. Anyone
have any especially good or bad experiences or, even better,
comparisons between the 3ware 8506-4LP, Adaptec 2410SA, or LSI
MegaRAID 150-4? Benchmarks and other alternatives especially welcome.
My primary concerns are operation under Linux, and all of them seem
to be very well supported, and reliability. As of now, other than the
slightly lower price of the LSI, I'm not seeing any reason to choose
one over any other.

I plan to fill in this chart as I get information:

http://moore.cx/experiences/hardware_sata_raid.html

Thanks.

Dan Moore

Hello Dan,

I saw the updated url you have provided. I am very curious, about
Adaptec's 4port SATA raid card coming with a battery back-up module.
Is it true? I know about the ABM-300 battery back-up module from
Adaptec because I have used with A2200S (SCSI dual channel raid card)
for many customers with good success. But I am not sure if they have
something similar for the 4-port SATA card. Do they? I couldn't find
anything on the website. I am very interested...

Sunny Naik
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