[Pc_Support] Re: RAID options for SATA

[Jason Boxman]

On Friday 15 July 2005 09:56, Damien McKenna wrote:
> Then again, this looks pretty nice:
>
> http://www.lycom.com.tw/PE105N.htm
>
> Too bad Google doesn't turn up any sellers.
>
> So what's a cheap RAID-5 PCI or PCI-e card that does XOR?

Yeah cheap is definitely the operative word.  You will not find any 'cheap' 
used 3Ware 8xxx cards on Ebay yet.  I just resold my old 7410 in February for 
75% of what I paid for it a year earlier.  They seem to maintain their value.

If you can't shell out for a real hardware RAID card for RAID 5, you could 
investigate RAID 1+0 in software if you can deal with the aggregate space 
being cut in half for increased speed and redundancy.  I've done software 
RAID 5 and it wasn't particularly fast for the reasons Bryan mentioned.