Butcher9_9
Limp Gawd
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- Mar 8, 2010
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I currently have an Adaptec 51645 Raid controller (about 6-8 years old I think) with 20 HDDs spread across 3 Raid 5 arrays . I have been having a few issues with it (dropped drives, system lockups when transferring to arrays and once an error saying the firmware could not be loaded) so I think its time for a new controller.
So my question is whats the best value 20+ controller out there with raid 5 support or greater?
I have been looking at the Adapter 72405 which seems good its just a shame that the 8 series don't offer a high port. I have also looked at the Acera ARC-1284Ml-24 but its only PCI-E 2 and since my current system only has a 4x port free PCI-E 3 would be great.
PS, I use this PC as an all in one LAN rig so using a HBA and Unix base software raid (while a nice idea) is not really on the cards.
So my question is whats the best value 20+ controller out there with raid 5 support or greater?
I have been looking at the Adapter 72405 which seems good its just a shame that the 8 series don't offer a high port. I have also looked at the Acera ARC-1284Ml-24 but its only PCI-E 2 and since my current system only has a 4x port free PCI-E 3 would be great.
PS, I use this PC as an all in one LAN rig so using a HBA and Unix base software raid (while a nice idea) is not really on the cards.