I need recommendations for a new pcie raid card for a high use home server. I plan to put 5 1tb wd black drives on it. The server will be running 3 virtual machines (I plan to try to use ESXi as the VM base) so the card needs to support full NCQ and be able to handle the occassional heavy load.
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raid6 sata hardware card
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I have the Areca ARC-1220 and it works pretty well on my RAID.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131004
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131004
3 vm's. I'm going to run home server on one (for my home network), then I'm going to consolidate 2 'development' servers (svn, finalbuidler, etc.) down onto the VM and get it out of my co-location rack. The 2 development servers are for companies that only have 4 or 5 developers and thus most of the time are idle (only really crunch when they are doing a build). With the new comcast home business service, I can run those from home. Potentially all 3 servers could be hitting the disk hard at once, especially if im streaming movies from the home server while doing a build or some such. So I want the hard drive performance to be tops.
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I took a look at that, isn't SAS scsi drives only?
Nope. SAS = Serial Attached SCSI (completely different interface than SCSI). You can use SATA drives on a SAS card or backplane, but not vice-versa.
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I'm really confused now. I only see a couple ports on the SAS card. Does SAS allow chaining or something?
SFF-8087 connectors are pretty much the standard for SAS cards these days. One multilane port is equal to four drives. Also, SAS allows for the use of expanders.