Im going to be building a new server for the company i work for. The server's main job is to host a Dos based program. (yes i know i said DOS) I also need to have a massive backup area in the server. I am going to order a barebones server from Newegg to get me started but i was wondering about intel's ESB2 controler. Im going to run 6 500 gig HD's in a raid5 with 2 of them set for hot spares. My question is this: Has anyone used the intel ESB2 controler with raid5? Does it perfome well? Does it have a high cpu penalty?
thanks in advance
thanks in advance