Thinking about running raid 5

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rockdude14

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Im thinking about running raid 5. Ive never ran a raid setup before and this seems like the best for my needs. I hve two 500gb hds filled with stuff and need some more room. Performance isnt much of a concern. I would like it to be able to add more drives without having to remake the array and if im right that means it needs online capacity expansion. Seeing as how Im allready about to have 4 drives which would give me 1.5tb of space and of course im going to want more would it be best to go for a card with 8x sata 2 ports?

Seems like this card kind of fits the bill
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115022

Are their any raid cards that could do this for cheaper?
Also 750gb drives are about the same cost/size ratio now is there any way I can incoperate them into my array. Im almost positve I cant without just replacing everything.

Thanks
Rockdude
 
I noticed it had no XOR.. Seems more of a fake RAID controller? I could be wrong.
 
Blue Fox said:
If performance is not of the utmost concern, you can do what Ockie did and get one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
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that seems like it could be a good option

how bad would performance be in a regular pci slot?
any idea if it can do online capcity expansion

also would it use the cpu when doing reads and wirtes
if so about how much

this is just on my main and only computer so I want to make sure its still usable
 
matrix563 said:
would that one ockie got work in a pci slot?
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from one of the reviews it sounds like it does
also sounds like you can use more than 1 which could be nice

or maybe just use the onboard raid 5
what would be the difference between that and the supermicro card for 99$

will I have to reformatt if I changed from my onboard raid 5 to some kind of hardware raid 5
 
Ok I hate to keep bumping this post.

I talked to Okie and he said it would all be managed under windows.

Does windows xp support online capacity expansion or is there another program that can do it
I cant seem to find much on how to do raid 5 with xp.

Thanks
 
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