What Raid controller card?

Mint_Sauce · 7 Feb 2008 at 10:52

My onboad Raid 5 (P35) sometimes goes crazy and decides it wants to do a verification and repair. It doesn't happen often and it's usually if Windows doesn't shut down properly and I have to switch it off manually.

Anyway, I get bored of waiting for it for about 2 days to verify and repair, slowing my work down to a crawl, would a hardware solution do this stuff faster and if so, what's the best for the money?

Mint_Sauce · 7 Feb 2008 at 12:01

I'm looking to spend as little as possible but don't want to compromise performance. As long as it at least matches and hopefully surpasses this onboard controller in terms of speed then it's all good!

How much faster are the £300+ cards and what other benefits do they have over the RocketRAID?

Mint_Sauce · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:10

Cool, I already have a UPS so that's no problem. I'll check out the RockerRAID and others.

Mint_Sauce · 8 Feb 2008 at 00:04

Cool, sounds good! Where could I get the sas to sata expander cables from? Any driver issues with Vista X64 I should know about or anything weird I will have to do to get it working?

Mint_Sauce · 8 Feb 2008 at 15:58

I have 5x500gb drives in Raid 5 at the moment. Am I able to convert them to Raid 10 with no data loss and would it be a good idea?

Mint_Sauce · 15 Feb 2008 at 20:43

For the Perc card, is this the correct one?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-PERC5i-P...ZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122#ebayphotohosting