Buying an Areca RAID card or PERC RAID or LSI RAID card?

[Burner27]

I am putting forth this question to those who have Areca cards or PERC cards or LSI RAID cards.....

I am using an Asus P8Z77-Pro V mobo and i am using the Intel Matrix RAID now. I would like to know which Areca or PERC or LSI card you guys recommend that can do SATA6G, has a PCIe x4 or x8 interface and if the battery backup module is necessary?

I will only be using SSDs on this card. I do not have any personal experience with Areca or PERC or LSI cards and would like some input from those more in the know.

Thanks!

 

[Soulkeeper]

what is your price range ?

adaptec just came out with the 7 series, which are pcie 3.0 cards
i've seen them at shopblt for $600 ...
maybe this will make their 6 series drop in price.

 

[Burner27]

what is your price range ?

adaptec just came out with the 7 series, which are pcie 3.0 cards
i've seen them at shopblt for $600 ...
maybe this will make their 6 series drop in price.

I haven't really decided price range yet--although i am not mr moneybags either. I guess a better question is - is it worth the investment for the improvement over the Intel matrix RAID?

 

[TemjinGold]

How many drives are you RAIDing?

 

[smangular]

Also how do you use the PC? (in addition to how many and which drives)

 

[mrpiggy]

I haven't really decided price range yet--although i am not mr moneybags either. I guess a better question is - is it worth the investment for the improvement over the Intel matrix RAID?

Depends on what you/others do with the PC. If it's simply to load games or typical PC applications, then no it's not worth the money to get a decent SATA3 RAID controller compared to the on-board Intel RAID for most people (whether SSD or HDD). Is the RAID performance of the better PCIe caching RAID controllers better than the onboard? Yes, but you will pay for it and unless you are a benchmark junky or are actually serving multiple users, the majority of the performance difference will be negligible in "real-world-normal-use" on a workstation PC.

 

[Burner27]

How many drives are you RAIDing?

It would be 3 x 256GB Crucial M4s and 2 x 128GB Samsung 830 SSDs.

Also how do you use the PC? (in addition to how many and which drives)

PC is used for work where occasionally I would be running multiple VMs.

Depends on what you/others do with the PC. If it's simply to load games or typical PC applications, then no it's not worth the money to get a decent SATA3 RAID controller compared to the on-board Intel RAID for most people (whether SSD or HDD). Is the RAID performance of the better PCIe caching RAID controllers better than the onboard? Yes, but you will pay for it and unless you are a benchmark junky or are actually serving multiple users, the majority of the performance difference will be negligible in "real-world-normal-use" on a workstation PC.

Yeah, that's what I figured. Maybe a 'cheap' RAID card would be better? I would prefer not to spend what it would cost for a new PC on one card....

 

[Burner27]

Double post...

 

[tweakboy]

Good luck their junk and will not be as fast as motherboard onboard SATA RAID

gl

 

[Burner27]

Good luck their junk and will not be as fast as motherboard onboard SATA RAID

gl

Which junk are you referring to? Areca/PERC/LSI junk or cheap RAID card junk?