rottweiler
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I'm building a new system and getting new hard drives and am wondering if I need a new controller. Currently I have 6 seagate 320GB sata drives on a 3Ware 9500S-8 controller. I have bought 3 1TB WD green drives to replace them. For one thing I don't think my card supports SATA-II. And if it does, can PCI even handle 3.0Gb/s?
I'm getting an Asus Maximus Formula and a Q6600 and am wondering what raid controller would work for me. When I bought the 3Ware I decided I wanted a top end controller. I don't think that's necessary any more. This is just a home PC which will act as the file server for my other home computers. Hopefully I'll build my HTPC sometime and use this as network storage. I am not worried about hardware processing since I will have a Quad core mostly going to waste anyway.
I spent about $500 on the 3Ware controller three and a half years ago. Hopefully I can get a decent 8 port SATA-II controller for half that, or even less, now.
Please recommend something for me that will fullfil my needs. Thanks.
I'm getting an Asus Maximus Formula and a Q6600 and am wondering what raid controller would work for me. When I bought the 3Ware I decided I wanted a top end controller. I don't think that's necessary any more. This is just a home PC which will act as the file server for my other home computers. Hopefully I'll build my HTPC sometime and use this as network storage. I am not worried about hardware processing since I will have a Quad core mostly going to waste anyway.
I spent about $500 on the 3Ware controller three and a half years ago. Hopefully I can get a decent 8 port SATA-II controller for half that, or even less, now.
Please recommend something for me that will fullfil my needs. Thanks.