On 5/15/2011 9:37 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:

Someone pointed me to ARECA non-raid controllers: 

http://www.areca.com.tw/products/sasnoneraid3g.htm

Does anyone have good or bad experiences with these?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151061

Read the 3 reviews.  Probably best to stay away from the Areca JBOD
HBAs.  All 4 use a Marvell chip.  Many NewEgg reviews are valuable, as
in this case.

Lest anyone denigrate the validity of quoting NewEgg due to their
"perceived customer base", note that today's NewEgg ships plenty of
mid/upper range gear (see links below) into corporations and
universities, including blade chassis/blades, FC and converged switches,
FC disk arrays, LTO libraries, etc.  They now have a business division
that competes to a degree with the likes of CDW et al.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=hewlett%20packard&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=ibm&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100

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Stan