Raid card for 12 HDDs in Raid0?

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you will need SAS to SATA connectors for that card, and I'm not sure if those drives are suitable. It gets a bit arcane, but raid arrays can drop drives if they do not recover from error states fast enough, some WD blacks do, some dont (mostly newer ones - WD nerfed them to stop people using them as enterprise drives) not sure which yours is. If you have the drives and want to try it, go for it. It's probably going to come down to cost - is the card + SAS-SATA converter cheaper than a couple of SSD's ? oh, and 12 WD Blacks is going to generate quite a bit of heat...
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yes, RAID 4. Though with todays larger disks the chances of you successfully rebuilding a 12 disk RAID 4 array after a disk failure without disk / sector errors preventing it are so slim I don't imagine it's much better than RAID 0. I don't know of any consumer - level cards that would allow a 10 disk RAID array either. If speed is your main concern buy a couple of SSD's instead and use your MB raid if it has it or a cheaper consumer raid card if it doesn't. Skip RAID entirely if you just want 12 TB of storage.
 
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you will need SAS to SATA connectors for that card, and I'm not sure if those drives are suitable. It gets a bit arcane, but raid arrays can drop drives if they do not recover from error states fast enough, some WD blacks do, some dont (mostly newer ones - WD nerfed them to stop people using them as enterprise drives) not sure which yours is. If you have the drives and want to try it, go for it. It's probably going to come down to cost - is the card + SAS-SATA converter cheaper than a couple of SSD's ? oh, and 12 WD Blacks is going to generate quite a bit of heat...
 
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