Good afternoon. I'm working on putting together a new build, with this motherboard:
ASUS M4A89GTD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131631
I'll be dual booting Windows/Linux from an SSD and sharing data between them with a RAID array formatted NTFS.
Let me preface this by saying that my experience with RAID setups is mostly with HP servers, which all have real hardware raid and present a single drive to the OS.
Now, I have a few questions about the array setup. I'd like to do RAID 5, with 4 2TB drives. I originally picked out the following drives: Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792
I'm trying to figure out whether I need a hardware controller and if so, which one to get. I'm a little hesitant to trust the on-motherboard controller with RAID 5, especially with multiple operating systems involved. Maybe it would work okay - not really sure.
I'm suspecting that I need a controller, though. Someone mentioned that they had a good experience with this in another thread: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115094 That seems very cheap for this application, though. Additionally, would I need to upgrade to Western Digital RE drives for any type of controller card setup?
Please don't hesitate to ask for any clarifications. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to go from here, even if that ends up being "use individual disks and forget about RAID".
ASUS M4A89GTD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131631
I'll be dual booting Windows/Linux from an SSD and sharing data between them with a RAID array formatted NTFS.
Let me preface this by saying that my experience with RAID setups is mostly with HP servers, which all have real hardware raid and present a single drive to the OS.
Now, I have a few questions about the array setup. I'd like to do RAID 5, with 4 2TB drives. I originally picked out the following drives: Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792
I'm trying to figure out whether I need a hardware controller and if so, which one to get. I'm a little hesitant to trust the on-motherboard controller with RAID 5, especially with multiple operating systems involved. Maybe it would work okay - not really sure.
I'm suspecting that I need a controller, though. Someone mentioned that they had a good experience with this in another thread: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115094 That seems very cheap for this application, though. Additionally, would I need to upgrade to Western Digital RE drives for any type of controller card setup?
Please don't hesitate to ask for any clarifications. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to go from here, even if that ends up being "use individual disks and forget about RAID".