Surfraid Triton SAS Raid System

[Bert]

From a local store, I acquired two sas enclosures similar to this:
Build-To-Order: SurfRAID TRITON 12-Bay 6Gbit SAS RAID System

They work as expected and disks show up on the main system when I use a SAS HBA. My system had SFF 8644 based connection instead of sff8088. I then looked into the controller card and it says ARC8018. Somewhere on internet I saw they are being referrred as 12Gb/s but it is very hard to find information on this system.

Does anyone have heard/ had experience with these systems?

 

[warlord1312]

What is your opinion of these? Do you think they are too loud to be ran in a home?

 

[Bert]

they are the quietest enterprise class sas enclosure I encountered. You can actually configure the fan speed.

 

[warlord1312]

Can you compare it to any other equipment as an example? Any things to watch out for with them? Were you able to track down any firmware updates for them?

 

[Bert]

I am a home user with a rack in the garage and this sas enclosure is probably more than what I need. In comparison to other systems, netapp or dell, I don't see a big difference other than the sophisticated control plane. I didn't try and see the need for firmware update.

The only problem for me is that all fan/link/alarm configuration seems to be reset after power cycle.