Raid Card for PowerEdge sc430

[scottatwittenberg]

Hi, we have a client who was cheap when they bought their server, and now they are running exchange, symantec a/v, file server, printserver, etc.. all on a dell poweredge with only 1 hard drive.

they did not get it with the raid card, the motherboard sata doesn't appear to support raid. i went to the dell site to see how much the sas 5iR card that could come with that server costs, and its $109 or something, but had horrible ratings, saying it is slow and hard to set up..

so.. has anyone used any other kind of raid card in one of these? we need to get them some redundancy and separate their data from programs...

 

[unhappy_mage]

I haven't any experience with that system in particular, but there's no reason I know of not to expect standard PCI Express cards to work in it. Areca makes some nice controllers; if all else fails, pick one that supports as many drives as you want. Dell's documentation says the chassis for an sc430 only holds two drives; is that the case or are you using something else? Have you considered external storage? Is capacity, redundancy, or performance the reason for upgrading?

 

[MrGuvernment]

just get any PCie raid card but preferbly one that does the work, not your cpu system, any PCIe raid card will work, as long as it it is the same speed, or slower, then the slot on the system (PCIe x1 card will work in a PCIe 4x slot)

the cheap dell $199 cards are all software based card and use cpu for anything and are crap!! i have one, i know!

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