After using a myriad of single drives and manual (read: not automatically redundant) backup schemes for about a year in my home server, I'm looking to upgrade to a real deal raid. I'm thinking a raid 5 for a combination of efficiency and good read speed.
My plan is to go with a 4 port card with either 4x 750GB or 1TB drives, depending on the prices at the time of purchase. I'm just wondering what cards you guys might recommend in terms of speed as well as possibly future expandability. Price is not a huge concern, but I'd rather not spend more than the $400 range.
This is the card I have my eye on: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116042
I know it will not allow me to upgrade in the future but the brand is great and I know it will be plenty fast. I'm just wondering if I possibly should go with an 8 port card with less/no ram since my write/read speeds will be limited by my 1gbps network anyway and will allow me to add on later (although I realize that I will need to rebuild the entire raid if I want to add drives). I don't really do any direct work on the server itself, so I am almost always reading and writing from my gaming desktop.
Anyone have any other suggestions based on my situation? Thanks for reading!
My plan is to go with a 4 port card with either 4x 750GB or 1TB drives, depending on the prices at the time of purchase. I'm just wondering what cards you guys might recommend in terms of speed as well as possibly future expandability. Price is not a huge concern, but I'd rather not spend more than the $400 range.
This is the card I have my eye on: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116042
I know it will not allow me to upgrade in the future but the brand is great and I know it will be plenty fast. I'm just wondering if I possibly should go with an 8 port card with less/no ram since my write/read speeds will be limited by my 1gbps network anyway and will allow me to add on later (although I realize that I will need to rebuild the entire raid if I want to add drives). I don't really do any direct work on the server itself, so I am almost always reading and writing from my gaming desktop.
Anyone have any other suggestions based on my situation? Thanks for reading!