"Cheap" SATA card no raid?

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detzx

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I'm using a Dell I got for free as an image server but it only has two SATA ports and I need more. My plan is to run RAID 5 with four 750's so I was going to get an SATA 4-port card and store them in an external incloser. What's a good four port card that works well with software raid? The dell has 2 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x 1 slot, 1 PCIe x 16
 
How cheap do you want to go? Highpoint makes some PCIe SATA cards with 4 ports for around $100-150.
 
4-port SiliconImage cards at dealextreme.com, $19.99 shipped. I'll let you know how mine works when I get it.

Cheapest "hardware RAID" (CRUMMY performance) is Koutech for $55 at newegg.com.

I have a Highpoint RocketRAID 2220 PCI 8-port SATA2 that has been rock solid for 18 months now, hardware RAID5 with good performance... $249 at newegg.
 
RogerX said:
4-port SiliconImage cards at dealextreme.com, $19.99 shipped. I'll let you know how mine works when I get it.

Cheapest "hardware RAID" (CRUMMY performance) is Koutech for $55 at newegg.com.

I have a Highpoint RocketRAID 2220 PCI 8-port SATA2 that has been rock solid for 18 months now, hardware RAID5 with good performance... $249 at newegg.
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Im interested in hearing how the card from dealextreme.com works. Im waiting for a Rosewill 4x internal and 2x external 4 channel card to come back in stock. $35 shipped.
 
I have a Highpoint RocketRAID 2300 card I'm using to run RAID5 with 4 750gb drives. Cost me a little over $100 and has been as solid as a rock
 
I just grabbed this from Best Buy. It uses a Silicon Image chipset so it shouldn't be terrible IONO I don't know much about this stuff. I just have a free copy of Win Server 2003 a few spare sata drives and a Old P3 tower with out sata ports(and guess I'm going to be quite bored after work tomorrow YES i know I need a life) so I guess we will see what happens I'll update tomorrow if anybody is interested.

Edit: Yes I am an Idiot you want a 4 port card not a 2 port card. This is what I get for posting on no sleep.
 
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