I need some suggestions on a decent 2 drive SATA RAID card for RAID 1. I've been looking on Newegg and some of the cards seem to be hit or miss. The Areca ARC-1200 seems to be the most reliable, but is $180. I am going to using this on a Dell PowerEdge SC1435 with CentOS 5.1 64 bit. Thanks!
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Recommended 2 drive RAID card
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RAID 1 isn't really going to see a performance boost from a RAID controller, especially considering two port cards are just SATA controllers with RAID drivers. You'd be better off with just using the built in SATA ports on that server and going with a software RAID.
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Any PCI-e 1x RAID card should be able to do the job of simple two-disk RAID functionality in terms of RAID 0 or RAID 1. A dedicated hardware controller would just be overkill.
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Shouldn't any basic PCI-e 1x Silicon Image based card do the job? Unless there's something inherently wrong with those chipsets, I think for basic RAID it should do the job nicely. Reason why I state PCI-e is because you don't want to be limited by PCI's bus bandwidth if you're going to be using uber drives in this array.
The motherboard doesn't have onboard RAID as far as I know.
set up a software RAID and then install the OS onto it. I've got an old slackware box around that boots from a linux software based RAID 1.