Raid Card for Windows 2008 server R2

[muskie32]

What is a good raid card(s) for sata II hard drives. It will be used for spinpoint 2TB HDD's, with This Mobo. I need 15 spinpoint HDD's right now, and need to have expandability for up to 35 hdd's. what are some good raid cards?

Thanks! :awe:


EDIT:

Also are the spinpoint 2TB HDD's an ideal pick for a server?

 

[owensdj]

I really like the LSI MegaRAID 9260 line of RAID cards.

http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/pro...s/value_line/megaraid_sas_9260-16i/index.html

 

[muskie32]

I was thinking something like:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-097-_-Product

With:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-196-_-Product

 

[mfenn]

LSI, Adaptec, and Areca are all fine. If you want expandability to 35 drives though, you really should look into some external enclosures. Oh yeah, and you may have to buy Nearline SAS drives instead of SATA in order to support the necessary SAS repeaters.

 

[muskie32]

A SAS drive such as This?
Or some other drive?

 

[mfenn]

A SAS drive such as This?
Or some other drive?

Yeah, that's what I was referring to.

 

[muskie32]

But is that a good SAS drive?
not so sure about seagate...

 

[mfenn]

But is that a good SAS drive?
not so sure about seagate...

Seagate's SAS drives are OK, better than their SATA ones.