SATA II RAID Controller Cards

This article is going to reopen the series of tests devoted to RAID controllers, which was temporarily absent from our regular review schedule. Today we are going to talk about a new lineup from AMCC...

Pros: Works out-of-the-box as a regular disk controller in CentOS5 (and probably other current versions of Linux). Cons: Installation documentation is lacking, you have to make a (semi-obvious) guess...

Pros: This card is extremely small, very inexpensive and it takes advantage of a seldom used slot: PCI-E X1. Cons: The documentation is not well written. Other Thoughts: This card only has two...

Pros: Got here fast. VERY thorough, well done WebPam management software, if it installs. Everything's in the bag; even for an OEM card, EVERYTHING's in there; 4x SATA cables, molex-SATA Power...

Adaptec RAID 5445Z - storage (RAID) - 8 Channel - SATA-300 controller / SAS low footprint - 300 Mbps - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, JBOD, 1E, 5EE, 60 - PCI Express x 8

Adaptec RAID 5405Z - storage (RAID) - 4 Channel - SATA-300 controller / SAS low footprint - 300 Mbps - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, JBOD, 1E, 5EE, 60 - PCI Express x 8

Our today's roundup will be devoted to five Adaptec RAID controllers. We will test not only the popular Serial ATA models, but also the solutions supporting SAS storage devices.