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Comparison of nine Serial ATA RAID 5 adapters

Door Femme Taken, dinsdag 8 maart 2005 10:53, views: 887.328

Feature comparison (2)

In order to provide an overview of the features supported by the RAID-adapters in our roundup, we have put all relevant features into a table. Due to the large amount of data, the table had to be split into two tables found on this and following page. To free the tables from the standard page width, some CSS-trickery was necessary.

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¹ Excluding 168-pins obligatory SDR SDRAM DIMM
² Including 256MB PC133 SDRAM worth € 45, -
³ Memory not provided, a minimum of 64MB is required

Manufacturer, model, price and warranty
Manufacturer	LSI Logic	LSI Logic	Promise	RAIDCore
Model	MegaRAID SATA 150-4	MegaRAID SATA 150-6	FastTrak S150 SX4	BC4852
Price (live)	Onbekend	Onbekend	Onbekend¹	Onbekend
Price (25-01-2005)	€ 239,-	€ 330,80	€ 220,-²	€ 420,-
Price per port	€ 59,75	€ 55,13	€ 55,-²	€ 52,50
Warranty	3 years	3 years	3 years	3 years
Hardware implementation
Classification	Intelligent	Intelligent	Hardware assisted	Hostbased
PCB form factor	Half-length	Half-length	Full-size	Half-length low-profile
SATA ports	4	6	4	8
PCI interface	64-bit 66MHz PCI 2.2	64-bit 66MHz PCI 2.2	32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.2	133MHz PCI-X
5V PCI compatible
Processor	Intel IOP302 100MHz	Intel IOP302 100MHz	N/A	N/A
I/O controller	Silicon Image Sil 3112 (2x)	Silicon Image Sil 3112 (3x)	Promise PDC20621	Broadcom BCM5770
Port speed	150MB/s	150MB/s	150MB/s	150MB/s
Native Serial ATA
SATA NCQ
ATA TCQ
Cache	64MB	64MB	0MB³	N/A
Cache expansion			, max. 256MB	N/A
Battery backup unit		Optional		N/A
Multi-lane option
Drive activity LEDs
RAID levels
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 3
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10 / 0+1
RAID 50
RAID features
Online capacity expansion
Online RAID level migration
Instant availability
S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Adapter teaming
> 2TB arrays (64-bit LBA)
Pre-boot environment
Textbased BIOS
Grafical BIOS
Management software
Webbased interface
Array configuration
Performance monitor
Email notification
Event logging
Driver support
Windows 32-bit	2000, XP, Server 2003	2000, XP, Server 2003	2000, XP, Server 2003	2000, XP, Server 2003
Windows 64-bit
Linux source
Linux distributions	Red Hat (8.0, 9.0, AS 2.1, AS 3.0, AS 3.0 AMD64), SuSE (8.1, 8.2, SLES 8)	Red Hat (8.0, 9.0, AS 2.1, AS 3.0, AS 3.0 AMD64), SuSE (8.1, 8.2, SLES 8)	Red Hat (8.0, 9.0), SuSE (8.1, 9.0)	Red Hat (9.0, AS 3.0), Fedora Core (1)
vell Netware
FreeBSD
MacOS
Documentation
Specs
Manual