I am looking to replace my older HP Windows Home Server with a Windows 2013 box and I am looking for a SATA RAID controller. I have been doing some research and its starting to make my head spin. So I was hoping i could get some recommendations here.
I am looking for a controller that will support (4) 3TB drives in a RAID 5 array without much fuss in Windows 2013. I would also like to try to keep the price under $150 where possible.
I thought this would be an easy thing to find however its been a few years since ive really worked with storage systems and figured all the size limitations has finally been taken care of. But I appear to be wrong. Most cards I am finding don't support drives larger than 2TB or if they do they have volume limitations of 2-6TB. Even LSI seems to have poor support for what I am looking for. Based on my searching you really need to go with a $300-$400 card to get what i am looking for. This seems a bit overkill for what I am trying to do. I just want decent space with some fault tolerance.
Any suggestions as to any cards that i should be looking at would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am looking for a controller that will support (4) 3TB drives in a RAID 5 array without much fuss in Windows 2013. I would also like to try to keep the price under $150 where possible.
I thought this would be an easy thing to find however its been a few years since ive really worked with storage systems and figured all the size limitations has finally been taken care of. But I appear to be wrong. Most cards I am finding don't support drives larger than 2TB or if they do they have volume limitations of 2-6TB. Even LSI seems to have poor support for what I am looking for. Based on my searching you really need to go with a $300-$400 card to get what i am looking for. This seems a bit overkill for what I am trying to do. I just want decent space with some fault tolerance.
Any suggestions as to any cards that i should be looking at would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks