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Onboard RAID-5 support on motherboards...

her209

her209

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I'd like to build an Intel-based file server that will have about 6-8TB of storage space using 1TB drives. Is RAID-5 capability pretty standard nowadays for onboard RAID controllers? Will it be able to support that many drives? How about performance?
 
don't use motherboard based raid 5, without write cache raid 5 performance just sucks, use raid 10 instead if you are thinking about using motherboard based raid. plus raid 5 has just horrible performance without a good HBA. Linux software raid 5 might be OK or ZFS based raid Z1 (equivalent to raid 5 capacity wise) would be OK using onboard ports but the build in raid 5 on Intel consumer motherboards is just awful.
 
The motherboard raid is only so-so at the best of times I find. And definitly not something to install the OS onto.

As to working, the intel controller only has 6 sata ports, so at most that is 6 drives. At 1TB, that is 5TB of storage space max. To get more than 6 drives in one array, you will need to either look at software raid or getting a controller with enough ports on it.
 
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