I am building a NAS box with 4 Hitachi 3TB 7K3000 drives and thinking of using FreeNAS for RAIDZ2. This is for home/media storage use, not mission-critical production or anything. I've been doing research on which RAID card to use and I'm kind of stuck: do I get an LSI 9260-4i, an IBM M1015, or will a cheaper Marvell/SiL-based card be OK? I beseech thee, storage gods, spare me any further research and recommend a sub-$200 RAID/HBA card!
Purchased parts are as such: System Build - PCPartPicker
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $27.00)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Other: SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Ultra Fit 16G CZ43 USB 3.0 Flash drive (Purchased For $6.00)
Other: ECS KBN-I/5200 AMD A6-5200 Quad Core processor MiniITX Motherboard (Purchased For $59.99)
Other: PC, Spare Case, Mini-ITX computer case with 200w Power Supply for AN4L (Purchased For $72.99)
Total: $439.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-02 20:44 EDT-0400
Purchased parts are as such: System Build - PCPartPicker
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $27.00)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $68.50)
Other: SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Ultra Fit 16G CZ43 USB 3.0 Flash drive (Purchased For $6.00)
Other: ECS KBN-I/5200 AMD A6-5200 Quad Core processor MiniITX Motherboard (Purchased For $59.99)
Other: PC, Spare Case, Mini-ITX computer case with 200w Power Supply for AN4L (Purchased For $72.99)
Total: $439.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-02 20:44 EDT-0400