[Pc_Support] Guy selling 3ware 7810 for $200 on anandtech forums

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 22:15 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Not so great.  I picked mine up for $200 shipped with three 30GB 7200 ATA 
> disks a year ago.  I haven't seen good deals on 7xxxx 3Ware cards recently.  
> You wouldn't really want to run much RAID 5 on the 7810 anyway.  You'd want a 
> 7500-8 or a 7506-8.

???

The 7x00/7x10 is same logic core as the 7x50/750x series.
It just has half the SRAM (1MB instead of 2MB).
The 750x-12 has 4MB of SRAM.

You typically don't want to run heavy RAID-5 on anything but the latest
9500S series anyway.

But I agree, $200 for an older 7810 probably isn't work it.

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