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.
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.