RAID controller

[bobdole369]

Howdy, looking to upgrade a server on the rack from using the onboard Intel ICH9R controller to something with a bit more beef.

However this CPU only has a single 16x PCIe, and 2x 1x PCIe. No 4x PCIe at all, and 2 PCI slots.

Its a 3U unit so I think I can get by with most sized expansion cards, except I'm finding most that have a CPU and memory on the card seem to be 4x PCIe.

I need to run 6 drives in a RAID 6 off this one. (4 data 2 parity)

Any thoughts? For those curious this unit is more for backups and DB mirroring than anything, so while speed is nice, its not critical. Bossman wants the CPU/memory type RAID card this time around.

 

[Dangman]

does the mobo have onboard video? Also you can use a PCI-e x4 card in a PCI-E x16 slot. A PCI-E x1 slot would work as well as long as it is an open ended one.
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[jb_hafo]

Another poss. *might* be to put a raid [something] in each of
2 pcie-1x cards, and mirror them or something... (you have
backups *besides* the raid 6 planned !! ??)