Re: RAID HBA options

Jim,
there is an old expression, which you won't like - YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. You bought the cheapest Raid host controller you could find, and you bought the cheapest drive chassis you could find. I bet you bought your SATA drives at Fry's. You buy crap, you get crap. You want a company that supports you - YOU PAY MORE MONEY.

There are many excellent companies that sell storage, and golly gee -they advertise RIGHT HERE on Creative Cow. Look to your left, look to your right, and you will see teriffic products, with companies that actually support you. If you pay TWICE what you paid for your Highpoint card, that company will actually send you your replacement card RIGHT AWAY. "But I don't want to pay twice the price - I want to pay as cheap as possible, and get GREAT tech support". What planet do you live on Jim - because I want that too, but no one will give it to me.

Companies like Maxx Digital, Dulce, Sonnet, Cal Digit, Active Storage, and plenty of others will give you wonderful support. Try this tomorrow morning - take the list I gave you - (start with Maxx Digital for example), and give them a call - see what happens. Then call the others - they will all be nice to you, they will all be helpful, and they will ALL CHARGE MORE MONEY THAN HIGHPOINT AND ENHANCED. You want good, right ? You want reliable, right ?

Creative Cow makes it SO EASY for everyone, but "everybody" justs wants the cheapest piece of crap they can find. Then your stuff drops dead, you lose all your media, you lose your clients, and say "why oh why did I do that". But don't worry Jim, there are plenty of other forums where people still can't understand why their Lacie drives are dropping dead all the time.

Bob Zelin