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    Recommend me a RAID card

    So would you guys recommend I use my motherboard's RAID feature to build a RAID 5 with write back cache enabled then? Cheers
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    I was just going through with all my options and suddenly it hit me that my motherboard can do RAID too. I dunno why I did not think of this first, maybe I have always associated RAID with independent RAID cards. Well anyways, I have a Intel DG965WH motherboard and according to Intel's...
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    Anyone?? Thanks
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    Sorry for the late reply, been busy lately. I do not think I can do FreeBSD as I have NO experience in UNIX systems and the server that houses the raid is Windows based that run other applications that require Windows. It it basically a headless Windows computer doubled as my file storage with...
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    Which cards have ZFS or Raid-Z? Thanks
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    Oh wow, this has gotten wayyy more technical than I expected. But I am glad it did, I did learn something. With all that said, which raid would you guys recommend then? Ranking from reliability, storage space and then performance, guess something similar to RAID 5 without the BER issues. Thanks
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    hm... in all my research I never came across this issue. Does not RAID 5 just rebuilt itself when there is a parity error, pardon my ignorance. Thanks
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    Recommend me a RAID card

    Looking for a good value RAID card that supports 4 SATA drives with hardware RAID 5, planning on putting four 1TB drives. Currently I have a Promise FastTrak SX4100, but it tops out at 2.1TB. Cheers