Roman Mamedov put forth on 4/14/2011 11:58 PM:

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:55:40 -0500
Stan Hoeppner [off-list ref] wrote:

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Steven Haigh put forth on 4/14/2011 8:16 AM:

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That is a very nice writeup... I searched for the HighPoint Rocket 620 -
listed as $24.99 on NewEgg - but Australian suppliers seem to have it
above $100AUD. The cheapest price I found was $54AUD - and they were out
of stock.

This is the card you should get:
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=536
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124027

It's the same Syba Sil3132 based card BackBlaze uses in their 45 drive
mdadm managed pods.

Did you read the second link you posted, specifically the Feedback section?
That's one more confirmation of corruption issue we discussed in this thread.

The overall Newegg rating for the Syba card you deride is 4/5 eggs
across 109 reviews.  If the card was as horrible as you make it out to
be, the rating would be 1/5 not 4/5, and people would stop buying it.

Note that the user who posted the read corruption issue referred to a
single application in Windows 7 where this error occurred, TeraCopy.
It's far more likely he was up against an application or driver issue
than a hardware issue with the Syba card.  He did not state whether a
Windows Explorer copy would also cause the problem, nor xcopy, nor
Robocopy, etc.

BTW, did you even read the BackBlaze blog I posted?  They run hundreds
of this exact Syba 3132 card, with Linux, with mdraid, and have reported
zero problems.  And they're using a 5:1 PMP on each 3132 port.  If these
cards, or the 3132 were junk, as you state, surely BackBlaze would have
run into problems in 2+ years of full production, no?

Again, you're taking isolated incidents and assuming they are the norm,
when they most certainly are not.

-- 
Stan