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Does anybody have a cheap (<US$100) RAID 5 controller they can
recommend? If not that cheap, how cheap can I go?
Thanks for any info!
Peace!
ECM
recommend? If not that cheap, how cheap can I go?
Thanks for any info!
Peace!
ECM
You have to determine, first, whether you want SCSI RAID or SATA RAID.ECM said:Does anybody have a cheap (<US$100) RAID 5 controller they can
recommend? If not that cheap, how cheap can I go?
Thanks for any info!
Peace!
ECM
ECM said:Does anybody have a cheap (<US$100) RAID 5 controller they can
recommend? If not that cheap, how cheap can I go?
S.Heenan said:
Bennett Price said:You have to determine, first, whether you want SCSI RAID or SATA RAID.
Then you have to determine how many drives will be in the RAID array.
Thanks! I didn't see this one when I was looking at newegg before -
it's just the kind of thing I was thinking of. Do you have any
experience with it? I've not owned any HighPoint products - any good
or bad reports out there?
Does anybody have a cheap (<US$100) RAID 5 controller they can
recommend? If not that cheap, how cheap can I go?
Thanks for any info!
Peace!
ECM
kony said:That is one of the best software PATA RAID cards, but a bit more
expensive than some. The cheapest would be,
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-104-214&depa=1
which uses Silicon Image 0680 chipset. I have a couple of those
and they work fine, but slightly slower than the Highpoint or
Promise chipset based cards, and the array setup is a bit crude,
line-text driven instead of an ASCII graphical interface. That's
not really a problem but it does make the setup look less
polished.
Thanks for the reply!
I came across this one in my search - but I have PATA RAID 0, 1, and
0+1 on my MB (a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro). I was thinking of PAID 5
because, apparently, it gives you the speed of striping with recovery
info stored on one volume rather than two, like 0+1 but with one less
drive.
If the HighPoint is a "software" RAID card, it may not fit my needs -
I need to keep the CPU unloaded as much as possible because it's for a
video editing/encoding workstation. I'll have to poke around at the
manufacturer's website some more.
While I have the attention of the RAID crowd, another question for
you: does RAID 5 require identical drives, ie, from the same
manufacturer, same model, etc? According to a source at work, it
does..... If so, then my previous question is moot; I have 3
different brands..... all 160GB, all 7200RPM, all 2MB cache, similar
latencies, but different manufacturers.
Thanks for the reply!
I came across this one in my search - but I have PATA RAID 0, 1, and
0+1 on my MB (a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro). I was thinking of PAID 5
because, apparently, it gives you the speed of striping with recovery
info stored on one volume rather than two, like 0+1 but with one less
drive.
If the HighPoint is a "software" RAID card, it may not fit my needs -
I need to keep the CPU unloaded as much as possible because it's for a
video editing/encoding workstation. I'll have to poke around at the
manufacturer's website some more.
While I have the attention of the RAID crowd, another question for
you: does RAID 5 require identical drives, ie, from the same
manufacturer, same model, etc? According to a source at work, it
does..... If so, then my previous question is moot; I have 3
different brands..... all 160GB, all 7200RPM, all 2MB cache, similar
latencies, but different manufacturers.
***SNIP***Toshi1873 said:RAID5 is generally not for speed, especially with the
cheaper RAID cards. The usual reason for using RAID5 is
to gain capacity (e.g. 300GB x 5) at a minimal cost.
Personally, I think that unless you're putting 6+ drives
into the RAID5 array, it's not really worth it. (Or if
you absolutely need a volume size that is larger then
existing hard drives.)
Personally, I'd suggest doing (2) drives as RAID1 and
use the 3rd drive as a scratch drive. Keep the O/S and
programs and configuration on the RAID1. Use the
scratch disk for captures and temp space.