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  RAID controller suggestion for PC !?!?!?!

  Posted by Vince909 on May 1, 2006 at 6:46 pm

  . .for PC system. Any suggestions ? Want to use a BM Extreme card and RAID (0) to edit HD. I have a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, CPU is AMD Anthlon 64 X2 4800+ Socket 939, 4GB Corsair RAM, and thinking about 4 SATA II WD drives in the RAID.

  Thanks in advance. . .

  Bob Zelin replied 20 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bill Buchanan

  May 1, 2006 at 11:24 pm

  Check out RAIDCore at Broadcom.com. I’m running RAID 5 across two of their cards, but my work is still SD. Running RAID 0, you should be able to work with HD. I did a lot of research before going with them, and their cards rate at the top on most accounts. Plus they offer great, and fast support.

  Bill Buchanan
  Buchanan Film Co.
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  Alan Hunter

  May 2, 2006 at 12:20 am

  Vince,

  You may want to look at a multiport option. I’ve got four ports, each capable of handling 5 drives per. Mine includes SATA II captability in RAID 0, 1, 5, 10.

  Alan
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  Bob Zelin

  May 2, 2006 at 4:16 am

  I doubt 4 drives will do uncompressed HD (it will definately do DVCProHD). If you want uncompressed HD with SATA, and you want it to be reliable, get a Sonnet E4P card, and 2 Sonnet Fusion 500 chassis with 10 SATA drives, and you will be ok.

  Uncompressed HD ain’t cheap – sorry.

  Bob Zelin

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