Raid Card Recommendation

[foodfightr]

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard
http://www.asus.com/products.a...&model=539&modelmenu=1
SATA 3GB/s
PCI Express x16 slot available!

I'm thinking about filling the machine with four 1.0 TB or 1.5 TB drives and a raid card.

I might run windows, linux or freeNAS as an operating system so please keep in mind driver compatibility.

 

[mooseracing]

Price/Performance I would go Perc 5, Otherwise the Perc 6 runs nice as well. More details of what you would like would be helpful, which RAID level, BBU?, Cache?, wanted/expected throughput, etc..

 

[Nothinman]

My only experience with PERC controllers is with those bundled with Dell servers but that's enough for me to avoid them like the plague.

 

[krazyglue]

I have an Areca-1220 in the same mobo with an opteron 185. I have 4 x 1tb on raid 5, and 4 x 750's on raid 6.

I can just about flood GB Ethernet on reads, and writes are not far behind.

I use it mainly for large movie files. I run win2k3.