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Blazestorm
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115031
Anyone have any experience with this. I'm not looking for crazy, turbo-fast card... right now I'm on soft-raid with Linux... it's not bad, I was able to expand the array with 2 drives and it's been good so far, I'm just more familiar with Windows, and would rather have a hardware raid card.
I have 5 x 750 drives right now, but that array is almost full, so I'm thinking of buying a new "server" style motherboard (something simple) with a slower processor, as it's only going to be a storage server and nothing more. Possibly host simple things, ventilo servers or small servers for LANs.. but for 99.9% of the time it's just going to store/stream files... I'd have to buy 5 more 750 drives, build that array, copy the files over, then kill the linux array and add those drives to the new array. As I really don't have anyway to backup my files separately right now.
I was looking at this card, just for having 16 ports and having the ability to make use of that later on...
I'm trying to keep it around $3-400 for a card...
Anyone have any experience with this. I'm not looking for crazy, turbo-fast card... right now I'm on soft-raid with Linux... it's not bad, I was able to expand the array with 2 drives and it's been good so far, I'm just more familiar with Windows, and would rather have a hardware raid card.
I have 5 x 750 drives right now, but that array is almost full, so I'm thinking of buying a new "server" style motherboard (something simple) with a slower processor, as it's only going to be a storage server and nothing more. Possibly host simple things, ventilo servers or small servers for LANs.. but for 99.9% of the time it's just going to store/stream files... I'd have to buy 5 more 750 drives, build that array, copy the files over, then kill the linux array and add those drives to the new array. As I really don't have anyway to backup my files separately right now.
I was looking at this card, just for having 16 ports and having the ability to make use of that later on...
I'm trying to keep it around $3-400 for a card...