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[Nelviticus]

Nelviticus - thank you - some great pointers there - Just to clarify - i think the XFX is a great price - but am I right in thinking there is no RAID 5 support in there?

That is correct, it does RAID 0, 1 and 3. RAID 3 is pretty similar to RAID 5 though.

Regards

[Steve B]

I'd be REALLY careful ordering those parts... The 1810 is a PCI-X (PCI-Extended), they tend to only be on server motherboards which I doubt you have.

I don't mean to be rude, but I'd be very careful at offering people mis-information
PCI-X is backwards compatible with PCI, albeit, the card will only run on a 32-bit bus, rather than a 64-bit one. Fair enough, there are PCI-E SATA RAID Cards out there, which will probably do a slightly better job, but I'm just being pedantic

However, if the card explicitly says its not compatible with 32-bit PCI, then accept my apologies

[Funkstar]

http://pinouts.ru/Slots/PCI_pinout.shtml

Here is a few diagrams of PCI-X pin outs. So not all PCI-X cards can be used in regular CI slots, but many can.

[Methanoid]

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