LSI 150-6 Sata RAID Q

[hkfeet]

Hi guys, I recently finished building my dual xeon nocona + asus ncch-dl and been waiting for a good pci-x sata raid card for a few weeks now. I want to run raid5 to store my dvds, vcds, and mp3s which totals to around 1gig. I have them currently stored on 4 250gig pata ide drives with no backups so I am worried I will lose a drive soon.

I did some research and all of the pci-x sata raid 6+ controllers has either no onboard memory, onboard xor chipset, or even ncq support. Originally I was going to get me a raidcore 8 port, but I didnt want my card to be cpu dependant. I didnt want to wait anymore so I bought me a LSI 150-6 6 port sata raid card today at zipzoomfly for less then $300. I read a few reviews, and found it to be a good card but too bad its not pci-x.

Im wondering what everyone opinion of a raid5 setup with the lsi card, and 5 300gig maxtor diamondmax 10, 16mb cache.

[hkfeet]

Thanks to some advice at 2cpu.com, I went with the raidcore controller. If anyone is interested, I will be using 5 300gig 16mb cache diamondmax drives for raid5. Ill post benchmarks in a few days once I get the drives tomorrow.

[Skulemate]

What are you doing with the LSI 150-6? I read through your post on 2cpu.com as well since I was looking at going RAID5 in the future (and looking at both of those cards to boot).

[hkfeet]

I bought the raidcore 8 port card instead due to 2cpu member recommendations. I guess I should make use of pci-x.

Anyways, if your interested in whats going on with my new box, heres the link to 2cpu
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57853