Hi all,
I'm kinda new to the raid 5 setup, thus far I'm planning on buying 3 Seagate 160GB sata hd's and running them in a raid 5 setup. So I'm looking for a fast 4x sata controller that runs on it's own processor.
I've searched the forum and have found that:
- 3ware is a good choice for servers
- Promise sucks (boot array and driver issues)
- Intel is slow in raid 5 config
- ICP Vortex is a Intel card with 64 mb more ram
I'm down to 2 candidates:
- Raidcore RC4452
- LSI Megaraid 150-4
- Raidcore is kinda new and uses the system cpu BUT is very fast.
- LSI comes out first in raid 5 in this test: http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/400/8 It's cheap and has good driver/bios support.
So all in all there is a lot to choose from. Am I right in my conclusions and is it simply a choice between Raidcore and LSI, a choice between speed and low cpu stress? Please help me out here.
I can read Ducth...
I'm kinda new to the raid 5 setup, thus far I'm planning on buying 3 Seagate 160GB sata hd's and running them in a raid 5 setup. So I'm looking for a fast 4x sata controller that runs on it's own processor.
I've searched the forum and have found that:
- 3ware is a good choice for servers
- Promise sucks (boot array and driver issues)
- Intel is slow in raid 5 config
- ICP Vortex is a Intel card with 64 mb more ram
I'm down to 2 candidates:
- Raidcore RC4452
- LSI Megaraid 150-4
- Raidcore is kinda new and uses the system cpu BUT is very fast.
- LSI comes out first in raid 5 in this test: http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/400/8 It's cheap and has good driver/bios support.
So all in all there is a lot to choose from. Am I right in my conclusions and is it simply a choice between Raidcore and LSI, a choice between speed and low cpu stress? Please help me out here.
I can read Ducth...

