Raid card that supports raid 5?

[BigRed]

im looking for a raid card that has raid 5 support, anyone know which ones support this? (i havent seen any).

 

[RainMaQer]

Found this Adaptec and this Promise that both feature RAID 5... and are both pretty pricey... the Adaptec is $390 and Pricewatch had the Promise for $400+.

 

[Diggrr]

Ooh, Ow. As if the drive prices weren't enough!

 

[aftermath]

i have an ide one by a company called 3ware.
its a costly thing but wotks well does raid 1, 0, 5 and 1+0
its a pci 32 card don't no price tho

 

[BigRed]

Found this Adaptec and this Promise that both feature RAID 5... and are both pretty pricey... the Adaptec is $390 and Pricewatch had the Promise for $400+.

OUCH, thats why i havent found any, all WAY out of my price range
well there goes that idea, lol thx anyway.

 

[Dissolved]

whats the difference between raid 0 and raid 5?

 

[Jon]

whats the difference between raid 0 and raid 5?

RAID 5 is striping with redundancy although very different from RAID 0+1.

 

[RainMaQer]

RAID 5 is striping with redundancy although very different from RAID 0+1.

Redundancy meaning? I know... I'm dumb... but I have no idea what that means

Does it mean MORE drives are supported at once?

 

[WillysNut]

RAID 5 is usually seen in server environments. Raid 5 must have at least 3 physical drives...but is usually many more. Based on the total raw storage space, a number of drives are setup as Parity Drives. In short, the parity drives collect bits of data that are being written to the actual storage drives..but they in turn do not show up as usuable storage space.

In the event of a drive failure...most being hot swappable, a new drive is inserted to replace the failed one, and the Parity drives rebuild the new drive back to it's orignal condition from the data that they have stored.

Quite a complex process but great for mission critical applications!!

 

[BigRed]

RAID 5 is usually seen in server environments. Raid 5 must have at least 3 physical drives...but is usually many more. Based on the total raw storage space, a number of drives are setup as Parity Drives. In short, the parity drives collect bits of data that are being written to the actual storage drives..but they in turn do not show up as usuable storage space.

In the event of a drive failure...most being hot swappable, a new drive is inserted to replace the failed one, and the Parity drives rebuild the new drive back to it's orignal condition from the data that they have stored.

Quite a complex process but great for mission critical applications!!

Plus they can preform several read/write instructions at the same time like a SCSI drive thats what i wanted it for but the cards are a bit too much, lol

 

[Dissolved]

Plus they can preform several read/write instructions at the same time like a SCSI drive thats what i wanted it for but the cards are a bit too much, lol

well just incase i looked on ebay, but didnt find any.