very interesting. the new Marvell controller is on there. it is going to be some type of HBA/raid card, but their full fledged cards they have out now look pretty interesting as well.

HighPoint hardware assisted RAID 5
assisted tells me that there is some CPU offloading of the raid parity calculations. also, there seems to be no cache. but man for budget card it could be fast. wondering about stripe settings, etc? if it has more functionality than the 9240 in that department it would be very interesting. i might even pick one up to play with. god i cant believe i said that i hate highpoint. but the egg has 30 day money back so why not around a bit with it?

im more interested in the marvell controller than anything. this seems to be LSI only competitor in this space. can it be better than the mighty 2108????