SATA Spells Trouble for SCSI RAID: Five Controllers Put to the Test

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Page 1: SATA II Hits The RAID Stage
Page 2: AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP
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Page 4: Areca ARC1220
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Page 6: Broadcom/Raidcore BC4852
Page 7: Upgrade Features On The Web
Page 8: HighPoint RocketRAID 2220
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Page 10: LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA300-8X
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Page 14: Benchmark Results, Continued
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... as well as setting very specific RAID options.

Creating a RAID array is simple. Just click the drives you want to add...

... and pick the RAID level you prefer. Out of RAID 5, RAID 10 and RAID 50 we picked RAID 5, because it is the only one that offers both redundancy in case a drive fails as well as decent net storage capacities.

The 3DM2 software will complain immediately after removing a drive.

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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.