RAID Cards

3Ware puts your hard drives to good use with its 8006-2LP RAID card. It gives you two internal SATA connections for all your storage needs. It will configure all four into a RAID array to allow for greater stability, speed, and s ...

sent Mar 27, 2009

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mike

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I need a RAID Adapter to do a RAID 1 setup on my production server.

I'm looking for a 2-channel controller for a 1U server with 2x SATA HDDs. The drives will be two Western Digital 74GB 8MB 10K RPM Raptor SA ...

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sean Added Mar 27, 2009

Software RAID uses the CPU, but might not be too bad with modern CPU and RAID 1.

I would try and find the same kind of drive, if possible.

robert Added Mar 27, 2009

I don't see any restrictions on what the two hard drives need to be, but it probably makes the most sense to at least match the capacity, then perhaps either the cache size or the rpm. I would guess that the controller can be configured to handle the inconsistencies, though.

robert Added Mar 27, 2009

I don't know if you do need a hardware controller. Windows Server software includes a RAID software controller that supports levels 0, 1 and 5.

robert Added Mar 27, 2009

There's an example of a URL that needs to be hyperlinked...

mike Added Mar 27, 2009

Another questions is.. does the hard drives have to be the exact same? For example: they have Raptor drives with 16mb now. Can I have two different drives on a RAID 1 setup?

mike Added Mar 27, 2009

This is the one that was recommended from someone already.