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Table One – Entry-Level Controllers (click here)
Table Two – High-Performance Controllers (click here)

I'm very surprised you didn't also review Adaptec's 5400 line in this line-up. The prices are comparible to the 3400 line, but the technolgy is newer (and presumably faster).

The Areca's leave these in the dust

MerrHell, it's hard to make those kind of statements when there was a limited number of drives and probably no tweaks done to the RAID arrays. Also, the only card that's a modern real hardware RAID solution is the 3405 (called the 4305 many times in the article), and even that is already outdated :/ Beyond that Adaptec and Areca actually use the same hardware most of the time.