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Can you recommend a RAID card?

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Assoul

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Just built a new rig with a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R5: http://amzn.com/B00ZYK7I8I

I'd like to purchase a dedicated RAID card that can support up to eight internal drives in a dual RAID-10 configuration. Can you recommend a card for this?


Thanks!
 
Any of the LSI cards that can accept a cache module with a battery backup would be fine. They wont be cheap. Probably $400+ for a RAID card that isnt fake RAID.

Consider a single RAID 10 array instead of busting the spindles up and creating two.

Whats the driving force for hardware RAID here?
 
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master_shake_ said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-LSI...742206?hash=item2a5e4d2bbe:g:NNsAAOSwzhVWs76L

LSI 9260-8i

140 dollars with bbu.

i have 3 running right now.

well 2 running and one on standby.

2 raid 6's and one raid 5.

other than needing a ton of air thrown at it they are great cards.
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I was actually thinking of the Dell PERC H200: http://amzn.com/B00EHPD790

You can score one off ebay for under $60 and it seems to have the features I'd like. I'm not looking for anything crazy, just something that will allow redundancy and improved performance. It doesn't have a backup battery but do I really need one?
 
frowertr said:
So no cache then if you aren't using a battery?
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At least with LSI controllers, you can force write-back in lieu of a battery but then you face greater risk of corruption during power loss. At this point it's probably cheaper to use a UPS than buy one of those NiMH bastards for the controller :sneaky:
 
If the PSU takes a nose dive then the UPS won't help to prevent corrupted data if a write was taking place during the power failure.

So it wouldn't be wise to run a production or enterprise server this way, IMO, with a single PSU.
 
frowertr said:
If the PSU takes a nose dive then the UPS won't help to prevent corrupted data if a write was taking place during the power failure.

So it wouldn't be wise to run a production or enterprise server this way, IMO, with a single PSU.
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Something tells me the OP isn't running a mission critical server. Just call it a hunch. 😉
 
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