On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pluses for the Arecas I've used:
> Out Of Band monitoring. Heck, I've updated the firmware on them from
> 1000 miles away.
> fast in RAID-10. Lots of HW controllers (I'm looking at you, LSI)
> perform poorly with layered RAID.
> They all use the same simple standard battery backed unit, unlike some
> manufacturers that glue them onto the DIMM so you have to buy a new
> memory module to replace your BBU (again, I'm looking at you LSI)
> Great UI via the web and / or the BIOS. Again, some other RAID setup
> utils are not so nice (and again, I'm looking at you, LSI)
>
If I could repeat this 1000 times, I would.