Raid Controller

[UTGamer]

I looked around for a bit and didn't seen any info on this. I'm looking for a good/decent PCIe RAID controller capable of doing Raid 5 and *hopefully* online capacity expansion. Obviously the cheaper the better, about the ~$200-250 range, maybe a little higher

So far all i've really come up with was this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115026

Any other ideas? Thanks.

 

[unhappy_mage]

The 2320 is your best bet, doing the two things you mentioned. What disks will you be using with it?

 

[UTGamer]

I was planning on using a couple of WD2500KS's

 

[Joni Nitro]

I would take this guys advice he has helped me out a lot, as I am looking for the same thing but not the bells and whistles. I just need Raid 5 with hot swap and auto rebuild.

Hey mage will a PCI-X card fit in my 64bit pci slot? I know you said it would fit in a standard pci slot but I dont have many to spare. Thanks.

 

[unhappy_mage]

The 2500KSs, while good disks, aren't good raid array disks. Get the RE drives (here) and you'll be fine.

Edit: Oh, and Joni, the 64-bit pci is pci-x. Except in some very, very rare cases, and I think it's compatible even then. There shouldn't be any problems as long as it'll physically fit - look at the slot and the card and make sure there aren't any little divider things in the wrong place. In the 2220's case, it's got all the possible holes for divider things, so it should be fine in any slot, but in the general case you can look and see the compatibility.