I'm having a hard time tracking down a solution for a 4 drive hardware raid solution for my setup. I want something that will at least give me the throughput of a single 7200 rpm sata III drive, but hopefully with added speed and fault tolerance of raid5. This ultimately will be to host about 12TB of storage for Ortho4xp for XP11.. currently just on a single 8TB drive.
I have a hero maximus X motherboard and already tight on space in my main case.
I started looking at some standalone (plugs in via esata 6 Gbps max) solutions, but there arent any or many that are raid 5 capable and at least 6 Gbps throughput.. there is one or two that do usb 3.1 at 10 gbps but dont have good reviews at all.
So i figure maybe a $100 box plus esata card that does multiplying and raid and likely a pciex4 card, to go in the 3rd pciex16 slot on this board (i assume without slowing down the video).
Originally i was budgeting around $200 for all of this (not counting drives).
As far as non raid external bay solutions i have found this one for around $99
There is also this model which supports usb 3.1 10gbps for a little more, however, i assume its jbod, no raid level support especially since usb.
So far its been slim pickins (especially on a raid card multiplier at a reasonable price and good reviews).. can anyone recommend a solution or two that works and performs well, especially at raid 5?
Thanks in advance
I have a hero maximus X motherboard and already tight on space in my main case.
I started looking at some standalone (plugs in via esata 6 Gbps max) solutions, but there arent any or many that are raid 5 capable and at least 6 Gbps throughput.. there is one or two that do usb 3.1 at 10 gbps but dont have good reviews at all.
So i figure maybe a $100 box plus esata card that does multiplying and raid and likely a pciex4 card, to go in the 3rd pciex16 slot on this board (i assume without slowing down the video).
Originally i was budgeting around $200 for all of this (not counting drives).
As far as non raid external bay solutions i have found this one for around $99
There is also this model which supports usb 3.1 10gbps for a little more, however, i assume its jbod, no raid level support especially since usb.
So far its been slim pickins (especially on a raid card multiplier at a reasonable price and good reviews).. can anyone recommend a solution or two that works and performs well, especially at raid 5?
Thanks in advance
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