Windows Storage Spaces Raid Cards

[Combat squirrel]

As title, anyone know of any raid cards that are compatable with windows storage spaces ? I know JMB and highpoint cards do not work, an am aware SOME LSI chipset cards do work, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any dirt cheap raid cards (not using their raid just to attach more drives to), that work with no issues with windows storage spaces ?

 

[Pandobear]

The Dell Perc cards work fine from memory. You don't really need a raid card though do you, you just want a SATA/SAS card I would have thought. I bought a box full of the Perc 5i cards, which attach 8 drives each. The other really useful thing that I discovered is that the Perc 5i cards work fine on the USB risers used in GPU mining, so that you are able to attach a card to a PCIe x1 slot, mount it remotely and then use the cheaper 30cm SAS to 4 x sata cables available on the 'bay. Makes a really tidy case, as only a USB3 cable from the mainboard to the card. Copying across my network get a steady 90 Mb/s to drives attached this way, which is plenty for me. Hope that this helps.

 

[Mercutio]

The last part about the USB had my ears perk up...

Is it possible to get faster than 1x PCIe with risers?