Best solution recommendation .. please

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lampstax

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My current setup is a paltry 6 x 1tb raid 5 using the ICH10R on board raid on my MSI P45D3 Platinum board.

I think the on board raid has a defective slot since it keep marking the drive there as failed when i know for sure the drive works and I've swapped other working drive to that slot.

So I want to go with a dedicated RAID solution. My board has two PCI-E slot, but the first one is already used for a video card. So I have the second PCI-E 16x slot free and all the PCI slots free.

The most important thing to me right now is the array reliability and expandability. From what I've seen, most newer Areca PCI-E card will be a good fit for me, but would I be able to use a PCI-E raid card in the second slot ?

I think my other option is a PCI-X raid card that will play nice in a PCI slot ( like the 3Ware 9500s ). I know that this will be a slower speed raid, but my main concern is not speed but reliability and expandability so that is not really a concern.

If I go with the PCI-X solution, is there a better card than the 9500s that for sure works with PCI slots ?

I would love to be able to do a raid 6 on a 12 to 16 disk array !

Thanks guys.
 
I think "solution" is a fix for a problem or an equation for directed fire between two or more moving bodies. Otherwise it is nothing. Your best 'nothing' is anything... but probably best to purchase nothing to fill your absence of nothing.
 
NoEcho said:
I think "solution" is a fix for a problem or an equation for directed fire between two or more moving bodies. Otherwise it is nothing. Your best 'nothing' is anything... but probably best to purchase nothing to fill your absence of nothing.
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when faced with two and there's no clear 'best' answer .. the best answer is to do nothing .. until a better answer present itself
 
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