[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“Hardware-based RAID 5 has traditionally been a privilege only
afforded to servers found in data centers in large
enterprises–until now. With 3ware/AMCC’s latest RAID controller,
the 9500 series, you get all the benefits of expensive RAID
controllers and fast redundant disk storage, but at a fraction of
the price of an UltraSCSI- based setup.“Instead of pricey SCSI disks, the 9500 series uses inexpensive
Serial ATA drives. (Serial ATA drives have a data transfer
capability of 150 MB per second, well within the neighborhood of
UltraSCSI RAID in the mid-range enterprise performance
level…)”