Recent content by Strmtrper6

Mind if I ask where? Either I haven't been looking very well or the prices just jumped crazy high. Even the person I bought from went from $290 to $430...

As I said before, the server only has SCSI and they are all populated. I didn't mention this but it doesn't have PCI-E either. Either of those options would have made this a lot easier. That is why I had to go with a PCI-X card. Thanks for the advice though. I will try to uninstall the...

Thanks sub.mesa. I was using windows raid with the poor performance I was posting earlier. If I try to stripe it from the controller, it fails. It doesn't let you pick a stripe size, which seems odd to me. *update* I tried to format with 64k allocation units just because there wasn't...

I/Os and throughput. It is for serving a database. My company won't let me sell them and buy something else. I pretty much have to make this work. I would still need a controller regardless. The server only has SCSI and they are all populated. Also, one 160 is barely faster than two 40s...

http://i.imgur.com/gXFHv.jpg That is just a simple windows array set up in diskpart. It isn't aligned. I tried to create an array using the raid card but every time I benchmarked it, it would kick out/orphan one of the drives and destroy my stripe set. Alright, here is my situation. I have...