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hockeyguyinoc   07-31-2009 at 06:02:04 PM

Anyone have a good review of raid 10 sata cards. We have a windows xp unit using it as a server and I would like to set it up in raid with bigger hard drives I would like to shoot for $100-200 range for the card. Looking at doing 4x500gb WD Cavier Black.


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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   08-03-2009 at 08:28:38 AM

Have you considered any of Adaptec's 3-series?

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hockeyguyinoc   08-03-2009 at 08:47:02 AM

I have used Adaptec in the past. Really I just haven't seen a low end review of raid cards. As it stands now we rely on backups if the hard drive fails. I rather have a little more security better access times and we need a bigger hard drive to work with. So any help would be nice.

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wuzy   08-03-2009 at 11:08:18 AM

Xbitlabs have done about 6 or more SAS RAID card reviews this year so far. All results include anything relevant to an 8-disk RAID10 array.
Just flick through... They said they're going to do a round-up eventually.

For the price range of $100-$200 you're looking at 2nd hands from retired last gen. This is server-class components we're talking about afterall and they're normally $400 minimum for a 2 SAS channel card (8 SATA devices without replicator).

If this is just purely a fileserver and nothing else, software RAID in *nix is very fast and reliable, not to mention free. e.g FreeNAS

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