Quote Originally Posted by Brother Esau View Post
...the one I am talking about as a option for entry level True Hardware Raid Controller from Areca is the Areca 1210 which is about $310.00 U.S Dollars and its a stellar super fast card I owned one before I bought this one and pound for pound its just as fast as this card minus the Burst Rate speed due to 256mb Onboard Ram
Hi Campbell,
I plan to buy such an controller for an linux server, have you tried the areca controllers under linux? If so any glitches?

Did you recieve your chips already? I'll finish my c2q testets till tomorrow and will continue testing with the dfi then. A backup bios chip whould be great.

achim~