Is this SATA card safe for software RAID 1?

[Compman55]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124064

Not interested in hardware raid, just RAID 1 thru windows server / windows 7.

Will this card be safe, and will it perform faster than intel;s ICH7R chipset that is capped at SATA 150 or SATA-1.

Way back in 2003 I bought a highpoint rocket raid card and it was worse than the onboard. This was IDE however...........

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Since that's a 1x PCI-E card (500MB/sec), you might be bottlenecked with all four HDDs connected, depending on how fast the drives are. (A single SSD would be faster than that card could handle, theoretically.)

But performance depends on the controller chip, ultimately. I'm not familiar with the 88SE9215 specifically and I can't find any benchmarks (not like the good old days when people actually did component reviews.)

But Marvell has made some pretty dodgy controllers, (their early SATA-3 controllers were outperformed by the SATA-2 controllers on Intel motherboards) so I'd probably shop around more if I were you.

 

[Compman55]

What controllers would be good that would still be cheap?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

http://techgage.com/article/battle_of_the_sata_30_controllers/4/

Here's the kind of thing I'm talking about. It would probably be fine for a few HDDs.

If you were using SSDs, you'd probably want to try to find a used higher-end card on eBay. (Say, something like a HIghpoint RocketRAID 640)

 

[Compman55]

I will be using 2 x 4TB seagate 5900 RPM drives, and maybe upgrade later to 4 drives.

I am concerend more with corruption, or flakyness rather than sheer speed. Its mostly for storage, and transfering things over the networking.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I will be using 2 x 4TB seagate 5900 RPM drives, and maybe upgrade later to 4 drives.

I am concerend more with corruption, or flakyness rather than sheer speed. Its mostly for storage, and transfering things over the networking.

In that case, the card in OP will be fine.

 

[Burpo]

Edit: Should work..