AMC flogs 3Ware storage
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LSI pays $20 million
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 15:52
AMC HAS SOLD OFF its 3ware storage adapter business to LSI for $20 million in cash.
According to AMC the sale will allow the outfit to focus on its core strengths in the development of highly-integrated deep sub-micron integrated circuits for energy-optimised, packet-based networks.
We suspect in these interesting times the cash would be jolly useful, too. µ
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So now it's down to LSI and Adaptec in North America.
Just LSI and Adaptec? I know RaidCore is gone, but there's still a couple others around.
Promise (Intel Sunrise Lake chipset, same as LSI/Adaptec, they've come a long way.)
Highpoint (Also using Intel chipsets in the highend, Marvel in the lowend I think.)
Areca (16xx series Intel based, photos of 18xx series show change to Marvel chipsets? Maybe due to Samsung Spinpoint/SSD controller issues and semi-closed firmware?)
Supermicro (Also Intel bandwagon.)
HP and Dell make cards but I think they may be rebrands. I know the old Dell PERCs were AMI(LSI) boards.
SUN has their own cards, not sure what they use.
Oh and VIA has been showing a mini ITX-based NAS that's basically just a dedicated software RAID system.
Looks to me like the big loser is the PowerPC chipset 3Ware was using as Intel is starting to dominate the RAID processor market. However, software-based cards are still hanging around (Areca 1300 series, lowend Promise/Highpoint lines, Jmicron, SIIG, etc), making me wonder where all those RaidCore guys went when Ciprico died.
I was just looking at 3Ware SATA RAID to replace the mother-board built-in RAID. I suppose it would still be fine to buy a card. Anything to replace the pseudo-software RAID from VIA with a true (low cost) hardware RAID card.
Silly anti-virus software conflicts with the VIA drivers every once in a while and freezes my system.