Depends on the point of the raid controller. I'm not saying its as good as a real controller but if he only needs as much performance as his old setup and wants the extra reliability then onboard mirrored raid is good enough and sould be faster then what he has now.
Just because you can spend a much larger amount of money on something doesn't mean you should. You need to figure out what you're really after. File server in your home for media files with only a few computers? The "slow" WD green drives are plenty fast enough. I use two 1TB WD green drives using the raid built into the motherboard to span them for my media center box and thats plenty fast enough. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Onboard 'raid' is like using 'mspaint' for professional photo editing. Just > because it's there > doesn't mean you should use it. Most onboard raid is utter garbage and can > end up doing more > harm than good. I would choose software raid over cheap onboard garbage any > day. In fact, software > raid isn't a bad idea here Duncan, however you will need a 'server' OS like > win2k3/2k8. > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:39:42PM -0400, Eli Allen wrote: >> I don't understand why you want a raid controller. Are you really >> doing anything that is disk i/o bound? or is it to keep from losing >> data? Would seem like almost any modern m/b with low end CPU would be >> faster and you can just use the built in raid to do a mirrored raid. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, DSinc <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Bryan, >> > I will print and parse your suggestions. ?Afraid I may be even more behind. >> > The best I can offer are PCI-66 slots on an old Intel STL2 m/b (think this >> > is ServerWerz chipset/design). ?Know this may be way past its' prime, but >> > this beast just will not die. >> > Yes, I may be trying to beat a horse that ain't quite dead yet..... >> > Still learning. ?I'll get back to you. Let me parse, absorb, and, think. >> > ?There are a few times when Technology can just suck! >> > Thanks, >> > Duncan >> > > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz >
