How does this work?

[thecaptainjs]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111164

I want to purchase this product plus 4x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145475

Pardon the stupid question, but I can set this up in raid 5 using the included card and I shouldn't have any issues as far as failing raid array due to desktop class drives or performance issues?

 

[TypeRazor]

The card that is included can be used for fakeRAID aka not true hardware RAID. You will get terrible performance if you are running windows. Or you can just leave it as JBOD which means its just connecting the hard drives to your system and nothing else.

EDIT: If you plan on using software RAID on a *nix system then its a different story.

 

[thecaptainjs]

The card that is included can be used for fakeRAID aka not true hardware RAID. You will get terrible performance if you are running windows. Or you can just leave it as JBOD which means its just connecting the hard drives to your system and nothing else.

EDIT: If you plan on using software RAID on a *nix system then its a different story.

Thanks for the info.
How would I accomplish raid10 or 5 using that or something similar?

 

[TypeRazor]

It depends on the card but its either set up in BIOS or a web UI type

 

[drescherjm]

Thanks for the info.
How would I accomplish raid10 or 5 using that or something similar?

Just remember a real hardware raid card with a cache and BBU (without the write behind cache the write performance in raid 5 will suck) will cost 3 to 4 times what this unit costs for the raid card alone.

 

[thecaptainjs]

Dammit, I kinda figured, just trying to figure out a way to make this work.
I have a media center PC that I need 4-6+TB on and I don't want to spend a ton of money, but I want HD Redundancy!