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RAID Controller

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Fr33K!e

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Hi guys,

Just joined and my first post.

I'm looking for a RAID controller for about £150. I have 4 X 3TB HDD's that I want to put in RAID 5. I'm open to suggestions and advice.

I don't really want to RAID the drives on the motherboard itself.

Thanks in advance
 
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Thank you for replying. Whilst on ebay I seen a LSI 9240-8i... I'm guessing this would be a better solution?

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My mistake... I've been looking at a IBM M1050 and realised when I Came back on here I'd been looking at the card. IBM M1015 is the same as LSI 9240-8i. Also I should have mentioned that that it will used on a X58 Sabertooth motherboard.
 
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XavierMace said:
Yeah the IBM is just a rebrand and usually a little cheaper.
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And this would work on windows 10 pro?

Sorry for coming across a bit green but if you don't ask you don't know and I cant find any definitive answer.

So far I have selected the IBM M1015, The RAID 5 key and a SAS SFF8087 to SATA x4 cable.
 
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Interesting as Storage Spaces is, the PC I'm using at the moment is soon to be replaced and I'm wanting something that can be migrated over to a new motherboard. I do have all the data backed up to another PC, I don't really want to retrieve all the data unless it is absolutely necessary.
 
Looking at it I'm lead to believe you can actually and adds scalability to the equation if you need more storage space but performance would take a hit going by one article I read (could be because they were using a mix of different size hdd's)
 
Fr33K!e said:
Looking at it I'm lead to believe you can actually and adds scalability to the equation if you need more storage space but performance would take a hit going by one article I read (could be because they were using a mix of different size hdd's)
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With RAID 5 (or Storage Spaces parity), performance is lackluster, no matter how you do it. You'll get good sequential reads, but that's about it. In part for that reason, you want to have the data backed up prior to trying to rebuild an array, if you intend to do that at all.

If you want good performance, stick to RAID 10.
 
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