Oxford 936 – RAID5 on the cheap coming soon
August 6th, 2008 by Mitch Cohen
This is cool:
http://www.softconnex.com/products/storage/OXUFS936QSE.html
Oxford’s 936 chip supports a four-drive RAID5 set, no drivers needed. I don’t know the price, but chances are it should allow for inexpensive RAID5 boxes in the very near future. FW400/800, USB, and eSATA in, supporting SATA drives. I’ll guess we’ll see empty cases in the $200-$300 range.
That’ll make lots of people (including me) very happy.
Posted in Technology
March 9th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I saw that the price for the chip is around $50 and, somewhat in line with that, Addonics offers two flavors of a 1-to-4 SATA port multiplier based on this chip for $90.