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What Kind of RAID Controller Do You Use?

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What kind of RAID controller do you use?

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Slightly ambiguous poll ... For example, most non-SCSI "onboard RAID" such as Sil311*, NVidia, Intel, and Promise are software RAID. Same with many addon cards too - does a Promise TX2 fall under the "Promise RAID card" option or the "Software RAID" option? Better (IMO :) ) to have "OS-provided" instead of "Software" if that's what your intention was (to have an option for lvm, dynamic striping, raid-z, etc).
 
An hp badged 4 channel adaptec scsi in my main rig and a 3ware in my server.

not that raid protected my data... should have shut down on the first drive failure but no I had to order the replacement from my main rig :cry: <-- that does not express the devistation.

I will vote adaptec ..or other
 
I voted for intel matrix because I'm using an ICHR controller, but I'm using it in RAID 0 - not matrix RAID.

By intel matrix do we mean intel ICHR southbridge based? Or a "true" RAID 0 & 1 or RAID 0 & 5 matrix RAID setup?
 
I checked off 3 boxes since I have no clue what yatta means.

Promise EX8350 (promise)
Areca 1220 (other)
Windows XP soft raid hack (soft)
 
Silicon Image 3114 x2
Silicon Image 3112

All using kernel raid-0 - easily maxes out the PCI bus.

If I had money and enough will to live, I'd get a half-decent PCIe motherboard and ludicrous onboard raid. But I don't. 2.21TiB is plenty enough for me :D
 
Just dove into Hardware RAID. I bought an Areca 1210 PCIe-8x XOR RAID-5 Card with 4 Ports. It uses the Intel IOP332 processor and 128MB of DDR333 ECC RAM. Unfortunately - my PSU just died on me (right before the Areca card came in), so it will be a week or so before I get to fire up the RAID-5 array :( Shuld be pretty speedy and secure with 4x Seagate 320GB Perp's...

I also use onboard ICH7 RAID-0 for OS duties with 2x 36Gig Raptors. 6 total HD's are a tight fit in my case - but they do cram in there :p I also have a front-bay removeable caddy for backup... So 7 total drives at once plus FW HD's when needed :eek: I'm a bit OCD on HD's and backing up my data :) (8 Removeable caddies and 3 FW HD's)

I can't wait to get the Hardware RAID-5 running!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid Power Supply :mad:

:cool:
 
Using the ICH7R raid controller on my Badaxe, RAID 0 with 2x WD800JDs and a single POS refurb WD2000JS 200gb sata for other stuff

Personal goal is one of those Areca cards in the PCI-E 4x slot and a few WD1500ADFD Raptors :)


~ Gos
 
What no Tekram? Not that I'm running one anymore, but my previous card was a Tekram, now I have a Dell branded LSI 21320 flashed to a genuine LSI 21320-R. Not that I'm actually using it for raid at the moment, lol.
 
Matrix. 2 WD 80gb's, 7200 SATA II's 50gb RAID0 for OS, installations, 50gb RAID1, downloads, pics, mp3's, etc.
 
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