What are some of the best, most reliable, hardware raid based, SATA raid cards for a normal 32-bit PCI slot?
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My long term PCI SATA RAID card was a Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 - 4 internal channels, bootable. It saw me through the Win XP years using 2x WD Caviar Black drives in RAID0, performance was pretty good and stable.
Even used it in Vista briefly with an SSD, but that was experimental.
I would also recommend the 1740. The only problem I've had with them is that it doesn't appear to be possible to have two in the same system for strange hardware reasons.
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http://www.highpoint-tech.com/PDF/RR1740/RR17 … 0_Datasheet.pdf
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adaptec-AAR-1210SA-2- … r-/252119296065 I have had great luck with these in RAID 0 as a boot device.
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What about when one of the hard drives fail in the raid 1 mode set with the Highpoint card? Does it rebuild itself and will the data stay safe?
I read a review on Newegg claiming "It provides RAID 1 and did provide data redundancy after I lost a drive."
Coincidence?
Others say "It is FakeRAID not hardware RAID."
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Yes, I think the only data loss I ever had with this card was when migrating a 3 drive RAID 5 array to 4 drives. The computer crashed midway and I lost the entire array.
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Just skimmed through this on the Adaptec cards -
http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/archives/158/comment-page-2
I wonder if there are any 3Ware PCI raid cards...
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wrote:Yes, I think the only data loss I ever had with this card was when migrating a 3 drive RAID 5 array to 4 drives. The computer crashed midway and I lost the entire array.
I would backup all data with USB flash drives to spare computers before trying this.
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Yes, I learned this the hard way. I'm much more careful about this now than I was back then (2009).
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Best how? Fastest?
wrote:Just skimmed through this on the Adaptec cards -
http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/archives/158/comment-page-2
I wonder if there are any 3Ware PCI raid cards...
I think the one I used was an earlier model. I know it was bootable and Sata1 not Sata2 like in that article. Dont have it on hand so I cant recall the exact model number 😒 nice to know to not go out of my way to find anymore of those cards! But honestly it worked really well. With fast HDD's would saturate the pci bus.
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wrote:Best how? Fastest?
Fault tolerance + overall reliability, easy to use software, easy to check disc health, great design.. Solid caps/or those small, rectangular, flat, solid state yellow caps are a must.
It's for a dual Pentium III server board with a PCI-X 66mhz slot, so speed would be nice, but it's not so important. The card just needs to be fast enough for the build.
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If you have PCI-X slots then you should be looking at the RocketRAID 1820A or 2220. The 1820A is SATA I but is still faster than the SATA II 1740 due to PCI-X.
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You are stuck at 128MB/sec max with a 32bit PCI card correct?
The only PCI RAID cards I bothered with were IDE ones (still have a few) because back then it was hard to saturate the PCI bus with the IDE drives of the time.
Any new SATA drives in RAID will be bottlenecked by the PCI slot unless you do PCI-X.
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wrote:Others say "It is FakeRAID not hardware RAID."
I think "FakeRAID" uses the host computer's RAM for cache and CPU for parity calculations, while hardware RAID has its own processor/memory separate from the host system. Is that the only difference?
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wrote:wrote:Best how? Fastest?
Fault tolerance + overall reliability, easy to use software, easy to check disc health, great design.. Solid caps/or those small, rectangular, flat, solid state yellow caps are a must.
It's for a dual Pentium III server board with a PCI-X 66mhz slot, so speed would be nice, but it's not so important. The card just needs to be fast enough for the build.
Oops nevermind. The board has only conventional PCI not PCI-X, my bad.
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Adaptec's summary of hardware, software and "hybrid" a.k.a hardware assisted software RAID - http://www.adaptec.com/nr/rdonlyres/14b2fd84- … w_hwraid_10.pdf
The 1740 is in the hybrid or "fake" category. I can't personally recall seeing a hardware SATA/SATAII PCI 32-bit controller, was looking for one circa 2010 for a spare build, but PCI-X models are fairly plentiful. If it's not a mission critical application or production environment you'll be pretty happy with the Highpoint or Adaptec, or even a Silicon Image based controller.
