Intel ICH8R RAID5, 4Terabyte Array possible?

[valnar]

I use the Highpoint RAID card in my signature. Cheap and effective. Since I have a Core2Duo as well, parity generation is no problem for my Sage server. It's a quasi-hardware RAID card but does use your CPU to assist. It supports ORM/OCE so you can add drives later without issue, except for that 20 hour RAID rebuild you'll probably have with adding a Terabyte drive in the future. No way around that.....

[Watch22]

Check over at 2cpu.com and look in the storage forum. There is a problem running a Perc 5 or Perc 6 raid controller on a Intel chipset. There is a fix since the LSI is the same card as the Dells. Just a fyi you can get the Perc raid controllers on Ebay for about $150.

[mattdcknsn]

Originally Posted by Watch22

Check over at 2cpu.com and look in the storage forum. There is a problem running a Perc 5 or Perc 6 raid controller on a Intel chipset. There is a fix since the LSI is the same card as the Dells. Just a fyi you can get the Perc raid controllers on Ebay for about $150.

Interesting, haven't heard that before. Also, those PERC 5 and PERC 6 RAID cards are SATA

IVB: Any news? I'm curious to see if that helped you out.

edit: just so you know the nomenclature, perc5/i is for Internal arrays (no external connectors), perc5/e is for External arrays (no internal connectors)

[IVB]

I had to work late last night, and the wife was watching TV until midnight so I couldn't take down the Sage server where this is going.

LSI support wants me to update the firmware, but that requires a bootable flash drive due to filesize which I don't currently own. I have a regular flash drive, but the process to make it bootable is something i'm still reading up on. I'm also seeing if Bestbuy/etc sells regular bootable flash drives so I don't have to screw up my current one...