[LUNI] Adaptec vs 3ware

[Branko Kotur]

On Friday 17 August 2007 8:52:01 am Martin Maney wrote:
>
> I basically agree with your stance, but I'm not sure I understand how
> 3ware is better than Adaptec wrt the openess of their management tools.
> At least for the PATA cards I'm still using, all the userland tools are
> closed source (or if they're willing to slip you a copy of the source
> it's not been obvious to me).
>
> On the essentials, last time I looked Adaptec's RAID cards were either
> boatanchors under Linux or worked only with a binary driver, so I've
> never looked further at them.  Sounds like they've unbent a bit, but at
> this point I have so much entirely positive experience with 3ware I'm
> not sure I'd care unless they were, say, half the price.  In which case
> I might have a hard time taking the product seriously, since everything
> I've looked at in the past that was half the price was actually
> proprietary software RAID.  :-/
>

The price difference between the 2 that I'm looking at was something like $30 
or $40.  Not much to sway me one way or the other based on price alone.