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I see that the new Zotac and Intel mini ITX boards have x16 PCIe slot. I was thinking of trying to plug a hardware RAID controller into that. Is there any reports that's such a configuration wouldn't work? Is the slot compatible with other things except graphic cards...

I see that the new Zotac and Intel mini ITX boards have x16 PCIe slot. I was thinking of trying to plug a hardware RAID controller into that. Is there any reports that's such a configuration wouldn't work? Is the slot compatible with other things except graphic cards...

Seeing how dice has landed on Raid6, and I will be doing it with 8 drives... the next logical issue is what drives...? They definitely must be low power.:) The obvious choice is: WD2002FYPS 2tb 6.8W 3.7W WD RE4-GP, 5400rpm, 64mb, 5yr warranty. That however is $300 a piece, and while i love...

I'm in the early stages of building my new NAS. Currently I have a 8x1TB RAID 5 array, but it's almost full.:o I will probably end up getting the new LSi 9260 card for this array, but I am curious to see what you guys think of these two raid sets. What would be better to have in case one...

I mean come on already! ...me and my God given luck... First my WD 500GB GP drive arrives DOA and now this. My build will NEVER be complete. They continue to bit the dust! I have 8 WD1000FYPS drives intended for my Raid5 array, I'm testing how everything works for some time now. And...

I'm completing my Raid5 setup with 6.36TB usable space. (8drives) Now, the time is soon at hand to decide if I should make any additional partitions on it or just leave it as a one big GPT disk with only one partition. It will be used only for storage and streaming media per demand 1-2 twice...

Hi, guys!:) I'm a newbie to your fine forums, but this seems to be the right and active place to ask this. I have a 3ware 9650SE Raid controller and currently 4 WD1000FYPS drives on it. On the controller bios settings I have set up staggered spinup to one drive at a time 1sec intervals...