Reliability of ASUS BIOS RAID-5
I need to build a couple of file servers and was looking at using the ASUS M2NVM DVI and its
BIOS RAID-5 as the core. In the past I've normally used hardware RAID controllers but there's
a budget cap on these and it wouldn't cover one.
Anyone have any opinions as to if the ASUS BIOS RAID-5 implementation is a good-enough
replacement for a hardware raid controller, in terms of reliability and performance. These
servers won't be hit by more than 3-4 users at once and so I can live with some performance
reduction.
On a seperate question, are there any low-end motherboards that support RAID-6 yet ?
Thanks.
Re: Reliability of ASUS BIOS RAID-5
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Originally Posted by
tefster
I need to build a couple of file servers and was looking at using the ASUS M2NVM DVI and its
BIOS RAID-5 as the core. In the past I've normally used hardware RAID controllers but there's
a budget cap on these and it wouldn't cover one.
Go with a Intel RAID chip for reliability.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
tefster
Anyone have any opinions as to if the ASUS BIOS RAID-5 implementation is a good-enough
replacement for a hardware raid controller, in terms of reliability and performance.
On-board RAID is not that bad with fast CPU's like the E7200.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
tefster
On a seperate question, are there any low-end motherboards that support RAID-6 yet ?
None that I know of...
Re: Reliability of ASUS BIOS RAID-5
If you have budget concerns, go for a crappy Dell poweredge 840
Nearly 1 year ago, got one of those with 2x250 GB hot swappable HDD's a 2.4 GHz Quad core Xeon and 4GB RAM for around £600
Cheap as chips.
