So, I brought this up in another forum but didn't really get anywhere.
I'm building a Home Storage Sever and want to go with RAID5 (5x3TB)
I've been looking around and decided the ntel RAID Storage Controller RS2WC080 seems to offer the best band for the buck and in RAID5. I plan to use a Pentium G860 and now I need a board to go with this processor that will also work with said RAID card. Most LGA1155 boards have 1X, 2X, 4X and 16X slots but it's mostly only expensive server boards that have 8X slots. I've ready that lots of boards don't like to have anything but video cards in their 16X slots. I was also told that you need a board that supports SGPIO which confuses me because it was my understanding that SGPIO communicates with the backplane and is not decessary if you're connecting direct to harddrives and not to a backplane.
Can anyone clear all of this up?
I'm building a Home Storage Sever and want to go with RAID5 (5x3TB)
I've been looking around and decided the ntel RAID Storage Controller RS2WC080 seems to offer the best band for the buck and in RAID5. I plan to use a Pentium G860 and now I need a board to go with this processor that will also work with said RAID card. Most LGA1155 boards have 1X, 2X, 4X and 16X slots but it's mostly only expensive server boards that have 8X slots. I've ready that lots of boards don't like to have anything but video cards in their 16X slots. I was also told that you need a board that supports SGPIO which confuses me because it was my understanding that SGPIO communicates with the backplane and is not decessary if you're connecting direct to harddrives and not to a backplane.
Can anyone clear all of this up?