I know that the following manufacturers make 8-port SATA controllers for PCI-e:<BR><BR>Areca [though I don't like the fact it has a fan for the chipset]<BR>Adaptec<BR>Broadcom<BR>3Ware<BR>LSI (I'm not ...

HighPoint Technologies on Tuesday introduced the RocketRAID 2224, a new Serial ATA II (SATA II)-based RAID controller that’s compatible with Macs and PCs. The card costs US$299. The PCI-X expansion ...

I currently have a file server, running ESXi, with a guest VM running my home storage in a ZFS array. The disks are connected to an 8-port LSI SATA/SAS card. I've toyed with the idea of replacing this ...

For a time, my main PC rocked a pair of 480GB Intel SSD 730 series drives in RAID 0 and I thought that was the bee's knees. It seemed like storage nirvana back in the day. My, how times have changed ...

A few days after we published the Crucial RealSSD C300 review a second drive arrived so that we could publish a RAID report. That was the beginning of February and by now most people think we just ...