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Raid-5 (Hardware, 8Port, SATA150) Questions

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MonsterMac

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I'm looking at these two cards, and I am wondering which one I should get. I'm looking to put together a Windows XP based hardware Raid-5 with 6 WD3200JD (SATA150) hard drives, and am looking for the best bargain I guess you could say, I don't need the fastest speeds, but I want something reliable.

HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz PCI-X SATA Controller Card - Retail

3ware 9500S-8 PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz SATA Controller Card RAID 0/1/5/10/50 JBOD - Retail

Does anyone have any other recommendations, or know why there's such a huge difference in price? Any and all comments are welcome, let me give you some more information. I want to put a 74gb Raptor in my system as an OS drive, and have the 6 WD drives in Raid-5 to use as my applications/mp3/dvd/etc. storage; it's not going to be accessed by very many other people, so speed is not too important. Thanks in advance.
 
Originally posted by: MonsterMac
I'm looking at these two cards, and I am wondering which one I should get. I'm looking to put together a Windows XP based hardware Raid-5 with 6 WD3200JD (SATA150) hard drives, and am looking for the best bargain I guess you could say, I don't need the fastest speeds, but I want something reliable.

HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz PCI-X SATA Controller Card - Retail

3ware 9500S-8 PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz SATA Controller Card RAID 0/1/5/10/50 JBOD - Retail

Does anyone have any other recommendations, or know why there's such a huge difference in price? Any and all comments are welcome, let me give you some more information. I want to put a 74gb Raptor in my system as an OS drive, and have the 6 WD drives in Raid-5 to use as my applications/mp3/dvd/etc. storage; it's not going to be accessed by very many other people, so speed is not too important. Thanks in advance.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/31/...ells_trouble_for_scsi_raid/page15.html

scroll down for the table..

the highpoint is a software controller, the 3ware is a hardware controller.
 
HighPoint is software raid. 3Ware is an overkill for the stuff you do. Get the LSI Logic hardware based 6-ch one for the better price. The intel and Adaptec cards are also hardware based but their price and performanced are not great.
 
yeah. i'm just looking for something simple enough to make a raid 5 array in windows xp, but the main stipend is it be able to support 5 drives and be a hardware controller.
 
Just make sure you're using a board that has these PCI-X or PCI 64-bit or 66mhz slots or whatever they are.

-64bit, 66/100/133Mhz PCI-X
-PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz
 
Originally posted by: V00D00
Just make sure you're using a board that has these PCI-X or PCI 64-bit or 66mhz slots or whatever they are.

-64bit, 66/100/133Mhz PCI-X
-PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz
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It only has one PCI-X slot (for my videocard) but shouldn't it be backwards compatible? Can anyone confirm this?
 
No, your board has a PCI-E slot for your video card. You'll need to pick up a workstation/server board for it to have any PCI-X slots. You're going to want to look for a PCI sata card, but running 6 drives through a PCI slot may saturate your PCI bus.
 
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