SATA Raid Review

[Hockeyguyinoc]

Anyone have a good review of raid 10 sata cards. We have a windows xp unit using it as a server and I would like to set it up in raid with bigger hard drives I would like to shoot for $100-200 range for the card. Looking at doing 4x500gb WD Cavier Black.

 

[r_manic]

Have you considered any of Adaptec's 3-series?

 

[Hockeyguyinoc]

I have used Adaptec in the past. Really I just haven't seen a low end review of raid cards. As it stands now we rely on backups if the hard drive fails. I rather have a little more security better access times and we need a bigger hard drive to work with. So any help would be nice.

 

[wuzy]

Xbitlabs have done about 6 or more SAS RAID card reviews this year so far. All results include anything relevant to an 8-disk RAID10 array.
Just flick through... They said they're going to do a round-up eventually.

For the price range of $100-$200 you're looking at 2nd hands from retired last gen. This is server-class components we're talking about afterall and they're normally $400 minimum for a 2 SAS channel card (8 SATA devices without replicator).

If this is just purely a fileserver and nothing else, software RAID in *nix is very fast and reliable, not to mention free. e.g FreeNAS