I was just wondering wheather are not to use 4 sata drives and onboard raid. Are buy a board that is equvilent without raid and just get 4 scsi drives and a raid card. I'm leaning toward a raid card but don't quite know how and what to do to choose one what do i need to make sure it has i have 250 total max for everything Is this enough to justivy a scsi raid card
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raid card are onboard?
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Depends on the board you get, some boards (especially high end server mobos) have great controllers built in. However, for your budget, I doubt you are going to find a board that is decent enough with a good controller, so my main suggestion would be to go the controller route.
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as Ockie said, depends on the board. I've got a dual Socket 940 board that has 6x SATA ports, 2x IDE channels, 2x SCSI U320 RAID channels, and the ability to add a ZCR via a PCI-X slot. It's the Supermicro H8DC8, and it's for sale, if you're interested just PM me.
If you are leaning towards a desktop board instead of a workstation or server board, I would also urge you to get a standalone controller. However, depending on what level of RAID you're interested in, a standalone controller could be more than you have budgeted, all by itself.
If you are leaning towards a desktop board instead of a workstation or server board, I would also urge you to get a standalone controller. However, depending on what level of RAID you're interested in, a standalone controller could be more than you have budgeted, all by itself.