Re: RAID HBA options

I think I get it, Bob. The sardonic treatment.

I'll admit I was a babe in the woods when I put this RAID together. I didn't know much about them, and I bought the whole works on the basis of an article by a man whom I still consider to be a trusted source.

So much for your mind reading powers, Carnac. Does it make a difference where I bought my Barracuda drives?

I didn't know what better HBA cards were available at the time. I have since researched RAIDs for days and days while trying to understand what it all means. And even after all that research, it appears that HPT has the sweetest management interface for the Mac. If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me.

I see that some of the competitors use EFI based management schemes, which seems kind of user-unfriendly contrasted to one that sends you condition emails, and lets you monitor your RAID 24/7 using a browser while booted into the OS you use to edit and stuff.

Maybe that's not important. I've worked on Avid RAIDs for years (which I know are mostly if not all ATTOs) and never had to do any management on them - that's what the engineers were for. So, maybe the management interface isn't important. That's part of the reason I'm exposing my ignorance here. I'd like to learn. And I don't even mind you mocking me here publicly, Bob. As long as I can learn something from it, that's quid pro quo.

I have to say something in defense of Enhance Technology: Their enclosure is cheap, but they have given me fast and friendly and fair customer service. They took my calls, called me back, double-teamed me with an engineer, when I had some questions. I'm impressed.

Areca and ATTO, then? Any reason to favor one over the other?



Jim Curtis
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