raid-5 hardware card question

[MonsterMac]

most raid-5 cards are pci-x/64bit, now will these work in my regular old pci slots in my computer? I can't figure that out and i don't want to shell out the money for one if it's not gonna work or cause problems or kill my motherboard, thanks in advance.

 

[Missing Ghost]

Yes it should work. 64bit cards work fine in 32 bit slots, but you lose a lot of speed.

 

[Missing Ghost]

btw, you should go with a pcie card if you have pcie slots.....Something like a pcie card is a lot better for big raid arrays than a raid card in a 32bits/33mhz pci slot.

 

[MonsterMac]

what about this card - 3ware 8506-8 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816116023

would it slow down my system at all? cause the raid5 would be going into my computer i use for everyday use - gaming, writing papers, you name it.

 

[songokussm]

in my experiance whenever i used an pci raid card it really slowed down my system. When i would do a large file xfer my system would crawl. But for normal operations it didnt.

as far as i can remember i have always had this issue, when using a pci raid controller. I upgrade my computer 2x a year. so thats a good bunch of systems. atleast 8 or so. that all had the same issues. With different hardware.

pcie/pcix/pci64 do not have these issues.