I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware SATA
controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am having trouble
finding a vendor who ships these controllers with their systems. Are you
rolling your own white boxes or am I just looking in the wrong places?

Currently, I'm looking at Penguin, HP and Sun (though Sun's store isn't
working for me at the moment). Maybe I just need to order a Penguin and then
buy the controller separately, but was hoping to get support from a single
entity.

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Jeff Frost, Owner <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/
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On 17-11-2006 18:45 Jeff Frost wrote:
> I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware SATA
> controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am having
> trouble finding a vendor who ships these controllers with their
> systems. Are you rolling your own white boxes or am I just looking in
> the wrong places?

In Holland it are indeed the smaller companies who supply such cards.
But luckily there is a very simple solution, all those big suppliers do
supply SAS-controllers. And as you may know, SATA disks can be used
without any problem on a SAS controller. Of course they are less
advanced and normally slower than a SAS disk.

So you can have a nice SAS raid card and insert SATA disks in it. And
than you can shop at any major server vendor I know off.

Good luck,

Arjen

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Contact Pogo Linux, www.pogolinux.com. I believe they OEM and VAR
both Areca and 3ware in their systems.

3ware was bought out by AMCC, www.amcc.com

Areca cards are distributed in NA by Tekram, www.tekram.com, and are
available from them as solo items as well as in OEM storage systems.
Areca main offices are in Taiwan.

Ron

At 12:45 PM 11/17/2006, Jeff Frost wrote:
>I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware
>SATA controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am
>having trouble finding a vendor who ships these controllers with
>their systems. Are you rolling your own white boxes or am I just
>looking in the wrong places?
>
>Currently, I'm looking at Penguin, HP and Sun (though Sun's store
>isn't working for me at the moment). Maybe I just need to order a
>Penguin and then buy the controller separately, but was hoping to
>get support from a single entity.


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On Nov 17, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:

> I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware
> SATA controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am
> having trouble finding a vendor who ships these controllers with
> their systems. Are you rolling your own white boxes or am I just
> looking in the wrong places?
>
> Currently, I'm looking at Penguin, HP and Sun (though Sun's store
> isn't working for me at the moment). Maybe I just need to order a
> Penguin and then buy the controller separately, but was hoping to
> get support from a single entity.

I bought my last system pre-built from asacomputers.com, with the
3ware controller in it. I don't recall if the controller was listed
on the webpage or not - I wrote their sales address and asked for a
quote on "one like that, with a 9550sx controller".

("one like that" was their 5U, Opteron, 24 bay box.)

Cheers,
Steve


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Jeff,

On 11/17/06 11:45 AM, "Jeff Frost" <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> wrote:

> I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware SATA
> controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am having trouble
> finding a vendor who ships these controllers with their systems. Are you
> rolling your own white boxes or am I just looking in the wrong places?
>
> Currently, I'm looking at Penguin, HP and Sun (though Sun's store isn't
> working for me at the moment). Maybe I just need to order a Penguin and then
> buy the controller separately, but was hoping to get support from a single
> entity.

Rackable or Asacomputers sell and support systems with the 3Ware or Areca
controllers.

- Luke



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