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PCI-E Raid Card

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Looking for a Raid card for my GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7.

I want to put 3-4 8TB Enterprise Seagate drives into Raid 5.
Not looking to spend too much on this, (Unless you can find it on the dell website)

So Guess I need Sata III 6GB x4 ports.

What else do you need to know, any suggestions?
 
If you are considering 8TB spinners, add the price of 1 additional drive and go double parity (Either ZFS Z2 or Hardware RAID6!!!!). R5 at this point on 8TB drives is really spinning the wheel and asking for problems in a rebuild. Is this going to be added to an existing Windows installation, or are you building a NAS from scratch. If you are in a windows environment in an existing machine, I would suggest an Areca controller (Here's a 12 port SAS/SATA on fleabay for example for about $200 for example.) It supports up to SATAII, but if you are running spinners and just using it for bulk storage, that is really all you need since the spinners can't even hit >300MB/s per channel.) Even the older areca's are really reliable and support most platforms.
 
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+1 to RAID 6. I also suggest a hotspare so your not waiting days for a replacement drive.

That Areca card is nice but I am fan of buying the old Dell or HP cards off ebay. If they dont have SAS to SATA breakout cables, you can usually buy from ebay or Amazon. Just be sure to google it up, there are a lot of Dell PERC 6 ir cards which only do RAID 0/1. I also dont think your storage array needs 6 GB/s SATA 3 speeds so save some money on rhe card and buy a spare drive.
 
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