Hello,
I have spent the last few days searching on Google and simply am stumped.
I'm looking for a 6 or 8 port RAID card that is HW RAID and capable of RAID6 plus it MUST have a BBU (Battery Backup).
I have a budget cap of $500.
I also have both PCIe and PCI-X slots - and the connections into this data repository will be throttled at 10mbps at the NICs so I'm not overly concerned with speed and I/O performance.
I'm hoping someone can either recommend me a good used/older (eBay) PCI-X card -OR- talk me out of PCI-X and recommend a decent PCIe card.
Am I going to regret going PCI-X vs. PCIe? Is there really that much difference between the speeds? I have a spare PCI-X slot in the machine and I know that going forward I'm not going to have any hardware that may want to use that slot - on the other hand, I'm running out of PCIe slots. My thinking is that the PCI-X interface is older and should be cheaper (as well as slower) but I could possibly get a better quality card for less money - is that true?
This is going into a 3U chassis mounted sideways so full or low profile - I have space for full-height.
Thx for replies!
I have spent the last few days searching on Google and simply am stumped.
I'm looking for a 6 or 8 port RAID card that is HW RAID and capable of RAID6 plus it MUST have a BBU (Battery Backup).
I have a budget cap of $500.
I also have both PCIe and PCI-X slots - and the connections into this data repository will be throttled at 10mbps at the NICs so I'm not overly concerned with speed and I/O performance.
I'm hoping someone can either recommend me a good used/older (eBay) PCI-X card -OR- talk me out of PCI-X and recommend a decent PCIe card.
Am I going to regret going PCI-X vs. PCIe? Is there really that much difference between the speeds? I have a spare PCI-X slot in the machine and I know that going forward I'm not going to have any hardware that may want to use that slot - on the other hand, I'm running out of PCIe slots. My thinking is that the PCI-X interface is older and should be cheaper (as well as slower) but I could possibly get a better quality card for less money - is that true?
This is going into a 3U chassis mounted sideways so full or low profile - I have space for full-height.
Thx for replies!