[Pc_Support] 320GB WD3200JD SATA drive for $107 shipped ...

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:34, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> Unfortunately, 3Ware hasn't introduced any.  In fact, they
> just introduced the PowerPC-based, PCI-X Escalade 9550.  That
> tells me their initial Escalade 9500S design, adding DRAM to
> the existing ASIC+SRAM approach, was a bad move.

How so?  I know of one person who was using the 9500-S and found it wasn't 
delivering the RAID 5 performance they were looking for.  Is it because the 
9550 is PowerPC based that indicates the ASIC+SRAM+DRAM wasn't enough?

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