Best RAID card

[Pariah]

How taxing is this on your cpu if you use,

None. All RAID 1 does is duplicate data and send it to multiple drives, there are no calculations involved.

I just need a simple backup/recovery solution.

RAID 1 is not a backup method, it guards against hardware failure. Anything you do to screw up your data will be duplicated to the second drive, making it a very poor safeguard for your data. Not RAID'ing the drives and just manually copying the data to a second drive would be a better backup method than RAID 1.

 

[Davegod75]

I knew someone would get on my for saying backup. and thought about not saying that. Indeed your are right and Raid is not backup solution! I guess what i really need/want is someone to protect me from dying hard drives.


thanks.

So do you think the sata raid in the ICHR chipset is good?

 

[Pariah]

For a RAID 1 or 2 drive RAID 0 array, it's just as good as any other similar feature solution.

 

[Murr]

I'm deciding between the Asus 865 and 875, and I'm considering splurging for the dual Raptor Raid 0 setup. It is my understanding that both mobos have raid support included. So my question is this: is the raid card on either one good enough for 2 HD raid 0 (limited CPU recourse)? I think I heard the 865 was better because it had the intel controller or something, as opposed to the promise, I think.

Any recommendations?

 

[Murr]

Hi.

 

[billandopus]

Just chiming in here - how about buying a cheap big ass hard drive(s) for a relative pittance, use an incremental software backup solution or an imaging solution on one comp or on a network?

If you want to image the whole thing with the fast HDDs nowdays it should take too long - overnight if you want - 380gigs should be around 200 gigs or so fully backed up and compressed and you can put that on 1-2 HDDs. Anything happens you can restore real quick. You can use something like Drive Image for that.

You can also do specific data backups using progs like BackUpMyPc which will allow you to back up specific folders and whatnot. It's the data that's important right? Heck, you can have multiple HDDs and then mirror them if you want manually.

These solutions may not be as elegant but they are probably cheaper than going through the RAID card and multi-disked arrays.