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Raid Card Advice for Raid 6

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I'm thinking of putting together a raid 6 setup which I'll use for backup of many pc's and also will probably use most of the storage for my home theater.

I just purchased 4 WD 4 TB Reds and will probably be picking up 2 more shortly along with my raid card. I'm considering Raid 6 as I like the redundancy of having 2 drives that can be lost. I'll mainly be reading from the setup, so I'm not really to worried about the hit I'll taking for writing.

The three brands that seem to be pretty good and reputable from peoples reviews and posts I've read are LSI, Areca, and Adaptec. I've also read some great things about the dell perc H700 card. From what I've read the older dell perc 6i cards don't support drives larger than 2 tb so those are out of the question.

I'll be running this on Windows 7 64 bit ultimate
 
I have two perc H700s that I don't use and almost thought about putting on ebay because of their value.

I have never had a hick-up with them.

Correct, I wouldn't put a >2tb drive on a perc 6i. The I have a lot of experience with the 5i's. depending on firmware you can cram 2TB drives on them, but I have run into some issues in the past with them. It isn't worth the savings of a hundred bucks.
 
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