NikKTech posted a review on the LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i & Areca ARC-1882i SATA+SAS 6Gb/s Controller Cards

Professionals, enthusiasts, overclockers and hardcore gamers all have but one thing in common, the need for speed and by speed i mean the best possible performance parts for their systems. Now as far back as i can remember CPUs, memory modules and graphics cards have always been the three leading hardware parts one would upgrade to get the best bang for the buck but lately with the price drops in SSDs more and more people switch to such RAID configurations with two or more units. So naturally we decided to do our part and show people what the gains are when you pair two of the latest and best selling SATA/SAS 6Gb/s PCI-Express controllers by both LSI and Areca (9265-8i/ ARC-1882i) with a total of 8 Kingston HyperX 120GB SSDs.

For organizations that demand the highest level of enterprise storage performance, LSI delivers an unmatched portfolio of storage technology solutions, including flash storage processors for enterprise, cloud, and client flash solutions and solid state drives (SSDs). We are the market leader in SAS, enterprise RAID, and application acceleration. With our unique product line breadth, LSI enables the entire storage ecosystem. Datacenter, public cloud, and on-premise server environments use our unique storage market insights and “storage DNA” to increase performance while lowering total cost of ownership. We work in close collaboration with the world’s leading manufacturers to build industry-leading storage solutions that make the most of our semiconductors’ capabilities: All major server and storage OEMs use LSI storage technology. With our unique product line breadth, we enable the entire storage ecosystem, from silicon to boards to advanced software solutions.

Areca Technology Corporation established in 1999, was founded by a group of engineers primarily from the most distinguished technology institute in Taiwan. Our engineer's team has over 20 years of disk array relative firmware/BIOS, software application, device drivers and ASIC technology. With a solid R&D team, Areca designs their own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and RAID 6 engine on their controller to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca's products provide storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCI, SCSI, and Fibre disk array controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD. Areca has completely committed its entire research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield fastest performance, best reliability, and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions.

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