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i am turning an old system using this motherboard into a media file storage machine, i have four 1TB segates that i want to RAID 5 with and so i am going to buy a raid controller and am looking at this and this one dont have much choice in controller cards due to mobo only having PCI slots, but what i cannot figure out, and need to in order to get the correct card is whether the PCI slots on my MOBO run at 32bit or 64bit so i can get the correct card.

also if you all have any advice on a better raid controller for PCI please feel free to post :)

and thanks for your help / comments
 
Just an fyi, those are fakeRAID cards, meaning that they use your PC's CPU to do all of the parity calculations. So there will be a performance hit. Although if the server is just a simple file server, then performance hit isn't too bad.

Some questions:
- What CPU do you have?
- What OS are you planning on using?
- What's your budget for this RAID card?
 
this is just a personal server, no internet or anything, i have a lot of media files, and i am tired of losing when i have a hard drive go bad, so i did a little research and thought a raid 5 would be for the best, i have everything but a controller, the cpu in that case is an athlon 1800, i will have somewhere between 2 and 4 GB of ram, i have not yet decided upon the OS, but i can use any MS as i am a technet plus subscriber so i was thinking of of either vista or sp, or maybe even server 03 or 08
 
well get a real hardware Raid card and go with Server2k8
 
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