Windows 10 RAID controller recomendation

[mralisson]

Hi, all.
Can you assist me on choosing a RAID card for use within Windows 10? I'm using RST RAID5 and would like to move to RAID10 using a hardware-based RAID card. I've searched a little bit and there is few options available ... Can you help me?

 

[androbourne]

LSI makes some decent cards for a good price.

How many drives are you planning on raiding with and what type of disks? If they are SSDs, you are going to need a higher end card that wont bottleneck due to SSD speeds.

Also what are you raiding for? Data protection? Performance? This for gaming?

In most cases, raiding on a workstation with SSDs isn't worth the cost or time.

 

[mralisson]

LSI makes some decent cards for a good price.

How many drives are you planning on raiding with and what type of disks? If they are SSDs, you are going to need a higher end card that wont bottleneck due to SSD speeds.

Also what are you raiding for? Data protection? Performance? This for gaming?

In most cases, raiding on a workstation with SSDs isn't worth the cost or time.

Tks, androbourne.
Yes, LSI Logic SAS9260-8I is one of I'm considering. Today I'm using 3xSATAIII 2TB and RAID5 (RST) and willing to move for 4xSATAIII 2TB RAID10 (hardware controlled). My main goal is READ performance for Audio Application (high quality sample reads). I found algo VANTEC cards and IOCrest. The last ones have Windows 10 drivers. LSI, not, but some users reported that it works on Windows 10 by using Windows 8/Server drivers. Here is why I'm afraid of ...