Reliability of ASUS BIOS RAID-5

[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.

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.

[LegacyOne]

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.

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.

On a seperate question, are there any low-end motherboards that support RAID-6 yet ?

None that I know of...

[badass]

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.