PCIE X1 Raid Card?

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Is there such thing as a good PCIE X1 Raid card? I am building a HTPC and would like it to be a NAS/fileserver also but the motherboard I have only has 2 PCIE X1 slots other than the X16 but thats for the video card? Is there a popular PCIE X1 Raid card?
 
You can use ANY PCI-E card, regardless of its role or whether it's a x1, x8 or x16, in a PCI-E x16 slot FYI.

Anyway, it depends on whether you want fakeRAID or true hardware RAID. In addition, it depends on what RAID type you want? 0, 1, or 5?
 
What type of RAID? If you're looking to do RAID5 or 6, then no, you wont find a decent hardware RAID card for x1 slots.
 
Does your mobo have integrated video? Maybe you could use that instead of the video card. Does the mobo have a PCI slot? Aren't there good PCI RAID card out there?
 
For what it is worth, I bought an Areca ARC-1200 PCI-E x1 RAID card for the purpose putting 2 Velociraptors in RAID0.

Oh man, what a mistake that was. The two drives were almost no faster than a single drive because limiting factor of the PCI-E 1x bandwidth.
 
Ravynmagi said:
For what it is worth, I bought an Areca ARC-1200 PCI-E x1 RAID card for the purpose putting 2 Velociraptors in RAID0.

Oh man, what a mistake that was. The two drives were almost no faster than a single drive because limiting factor of the PCI-E 1x bandwidth.
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The card, not PCIe x1 is responsible for that.
 
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