tech Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Hi there in just thinking of buying 3 x 320 gig Sata hdd and also a Raid 5 Controller, so this way I will have 640gig of Reduant space, Does anyone know which is the best Raid 5 Sata controller to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....rice=&maxPrice=how much do u wna pay? heres a huge list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 RAID5 capable cards cost a lot. Expect to spend at least $150:(SATA1)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816115023http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816115020http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816118015(SATA2)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816115027http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816102077http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816115025 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 To my knowledge, AMCC 3ware 9550 and 9500 serie are the best for performance but also the most expensive. They come with 3 years waranty and AMCC offer some interesting feature like advanced replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 You would not use indeed a cheap as* RAID controller to rebuild your setup when you have 2x 320GB; you will need some intelligence to do rebuild your setup fast or wait "a long time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuMz Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 (edited) You would not use indeed a cheap as* RAID controller to rebuild your setup when you have 2x 320GB; you will need some intelligence to do rebuild your setup fast or wait "a long time".How long is "a long time."?? I am in a very similar situation. Right now, I have 4 WD320's in RAID 0 which I obviously want to change to RAID 5 (or 6?). How long (estimated) does it take to rebuild incase 1 drive fails? Edited May 12, 2006 by JuMz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I don´t know, depends on a lot of factors but for 600GB I think like 6 hours or so.Any one else tried it with some normal SATA drives in RAID5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I just stick with the onboard controller. And even then, I never go toward RAID5 or any other redundant setup. Drives rarely fail anyway; I've had 6 computers since 1997 and not one of them has failed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 It took 5hours to rebuild an raid 5 array of 1.8To with 7*300Go drives and a 3ware 7506-8 (ata133). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-I- Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 true, but 3disk is triple the chance i had softwware version of raid 5 setup in ata100 5400 rpm and had to wait 3q of an hour for restoring + windows error checking an aray of 5 9gb disk (35gb) so (probably 1min per gb)but that was a looong time ago, i think allen has a good guideline for the little more expansive versions, btw allen could you tell what yours has costed you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tech Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 i think Raid 5 is the best way to go I have loads of Tunes I dont want to loose I recently lost a 100gig disk, lucky enough i had a frined over a few week before and he ghosted the entire disk, If he hadnt called I would be down 100 gigs of tunes I have over 300 gigs at present of Music loads of Apps, Image Files from PC's I work in IT and also have loads of DATA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I have one 3ware 7506-8 and one 9500S-8. The 7506 cost about 400$ but you can find sometimes one on e-bay cheaper. The 9500S one is more expensive and cost about 650$, i got this one e-bay and paid a lot less. Anyway, i tried promise TX2000 (raid 0/1 hardware), LSI Megaraid IDE (up to 8 drives raid0/1/5/10) and lastest adaptec sata raid controllers (for HP proliant servers); most of them do their job but if you are looking for the performance with raid (at least 75% of perf of a standalone drive), you'll go for a 3ware or an adaptec:- LSI Megaraid could only deliver 10MByte/s in raid 5 configuration with either Windows or Linux.- Promise TX2000 can deliver at most 45MBytes/s in raid 1 configuration with either Windows or Linux and is tricky to get working with linux.- Adpatec SATA 21160 in raid 5 configuration deliver something like 20/25Mbytes/s with Linux i didn't tried with Windows.- 3ware7506 deliver 30/40Mbytes/s in raid 5 configuration with linux and 25/35Mbytes/s with Windows.- 3ware 9500S deliver 30/60Mbytes in raid 5 configuration with Windows.My choice of 3ware's controllers was made because i needed a good Windows and linux support and 3ware controller have been supported natively in linux kernels for long time (no need to patch or to load a lousy module without sources).I won't tell someone to absolutely buy a 3ware controller if he don't want a hardware raid5 and good perf. Sadly theese controllers are very expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tech Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 has anyone every used one of these Sil3114 SATA Serial ATA 5 Port (4+1) Raid Card upto 4HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Unless I'm mistaken, aren't those chips integrated into most motherboards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuMz Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 You are correct. Perhaps they come in a standalone card as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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