That is onboard RAID. Most onboard RAID controllers today for both SATA and SAS are pretty good, unlike the situation a few years back.
I'm sure you could add additional controllers without issue. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership* On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > What do y'all think about this bare-bones machine: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816152090 > > If I had 6x1Gb SATA and about 8 Gigs of RAM or so, do you think that would > make a decent home-brew storage appliance? I'm reasonably certain I could > get management to buy a copy of RedHat Enterprise O/S or something. The > thing I don't know is whether this is a "fake raid" controller or a real > RAID controller on-board. Also, could I use an add-on card to control the > RAID instead of the on-board RAID? I did see that it does not support RAID > 6, which I would like to do. :-) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:50 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Home-brew SAN vs name-brand storage appliance > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Aldrich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know enough about server hardware and RAID > > controllers to be that comfortable with building my own. > > Given that, and your comments about where you live, etc., I think > that may be the deciding factor: You may be better off paying for > someone else (e.g., Dell) to give you a solution with service contract > and (extra-cost) technical hand-holding. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.27/2453 - Release Date: 10/23/09 > 06:56:00 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
