Conclusion
The Addonics RAID controller is not going to replace a thousand dollar server RAID controller with onboard memory and backup battery. It’s not suitable for enterprise storage (manageability and latency). But it's not intended to fulfil that role.
It does, however, produce throughput suitable for home and SOHO uses, for example in a NAS and it’s a cheap way of adding lots of disks to a storage PC or Media Center PC without the hassles of finding, changing or installing drivers or management tools.
I know of nothing that matches its flexibility and performance at the price. For the purposes above, and at the low price of just $138, the Addonics 5 port HPM-XA has no competition.
The Addonics range is stocked by TechBuy and they also offer some bundled options - all you need to add storage to your desktop:
- The System version of the RAID Controller: $138.65
- The Enclosure version of the RAID controller: $138.65
- The Home Theatre 4TB Storage Bundle - the System controller, a chassis that fits 5 disks in 3 drive bays, and five 1TB disks for 4TB of failure tolerant disk space: $919.65
- The Home Theatre 8TB Storage Bundle - the System controller, a chassis that fits 5 disks in 3 drive bays, and five 2TB disks for 8TB of failure tolerant disk space: $1,772.15
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|70.114.239.xxx |2009-12-30 06:46:59 outcast2k - product review gaps?good start on covering some of the basics. some other detais that would be good to know:
1) how long does a RAID rebuild take?
2) how do you tell how far a rebuild has left?
3) how do you tell which disk failed?
4) does the software UI handle 2+ HDM-XA's in the system?
5) how do you recover the RAID if the HDM-XA itself has failed and needs to be replaced?
6) what's the biggest sized drives supported? 2TB?
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|219.90.134.xxx |2010-03-07 23:17:32 TERRABYTEONE - ?? 3132 pciex1 card max output is 190mb/seciv tested this.. etc..
sil 3132 pci-e x1 card )(addtronics one) or jmb 363 or highpoint 4 port x1 2300 raid card.
max oot put is 190mb sec total.. and if using 2 ports its 95mb/sec..
tested this using 4x volir wd 300g hdd
(they get each 109mb/sec)
so if using both e-sata ports.. transfer maxes out at 190mb.sec..
if using 4 hdd in raid 0 etc... max output for 4x vr 300 on intel on-board raid (x48 chipset) 500+mb/sec..
on sil using this product is.. 90mb/sec.
als tryed 4x 1.5 tb 7200.11 hdd..max out at 90mb/sec
also tryed raid 5.. 90mb/sec.
2tb hdd supported. but hardware or nonhardware raid the sil raid gear does not support partitions bigger than 2tb.(old design)
to get 6 tb hdd spac out of in i raid 0 (4x 1.5tb)
i hd to make 4 partitions .. the software is limited in what size to make. it..it was tricky.. i had to make partitin/volumns 2+ then delet and recreat smaller ones. in aparticular order.
they need to update thar raid cards. (chan...
Thanks for the great write up!