how much will a scsi 3 raid controller cost me?

[NinjaGnome]

I cant find any of them and i want to know how much it costs.

 

[Goosemaster]

The cheapest Mylex I found was about $600 and up..


Mylex ACCELERAID A352-2-32NB 08P2420 Controller Cards Array Dual Channel GSA # GS-35F-0171M
2 CHANNEL PCI ULTRA 160 SCSI RAID ADPTR 32MB NO BBU

$598

eXtremeRAID 1100 PCI TO ULTRA2 SCSI 3 CH RAID. 32MB CACHE W/BBU-DAC1164P-3E-32-MY
RAID LEVELS 0,0+1,1,3,5,10,30,50, JBOD, W/ MEDIA KIT. 3 CHANEL Array RAID Controller dual channel. INT AND EXT

$699


Epensive aren't they. Hell of a good preformer in a server though

 

[NinjaGnome]

lol yeah this isnt in my friends price range lol. he was looking for like 300 bux lol

 

[mastertech01]

SCSI 3 is a very loose term, and could be anything from U2W to 160. I have even seen UW controllers called SCSI 3. Becarefull what you buy and what you THINK you are buying. As for SCSI raid controller prices, check out the ForSAle forum.. I see them come up for sale all the time, and many for less than 300.00. Depends on the overall performance you are looking for. Its best to ask around about the performance of various controllers and read reviews. Some expensive U160 Raid controllers only perform about the speed of a single drive..they mainly offer data integrity.

 

[NinjaGnome]

yeah scsi is a pain in the ass. its too confusing.

 

[PH0ENIX]

Well all I can say is, that if he only wants to spend $300 on a RAID controller, he better already have the drives, or it could come as a shock!

I bought my HP NetRAID-1 for $299 (inc tax) brand new, though it was in a clearance, reduced from the original $700-odd from when it was released.

If he's not really heavily into image/video editing or similar, DVD ripping, anything extremely data intensive - you may want to point him towards IDE RAID - unless the reason he's looking at SCSI is because he already has the disks.

For one thing IDE disks are dirt cheap, and there are many equally inexpensive controllers around...

One thing that is almost pointless mentioning, but worth it because its not funny if it happens; SCSI RAID controlelrs tend to be full-length PCI cards.
Quite a few systems simply dont have the case space or mainboard clearance to install a full-length card.
Also, because they have a 'CPU' on them, which gets rather warm, cooling nuts (like me) tend to add HSF assemblies to the card - which makes PCI card retention slits an absolute necessity...

Good Luck!