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  VideoRaid ST Alternative & HP XW8600

  Posted by Brian O’corrbui on March 31, 2010 at 3:33 pm

  Hi all,

  I recently put together a shopping list to create a Videoraid ST alternative at about 40% of the price with a HP Z400 Tower. It included –

  1 – ATTO R380 SAS PCI-E Card
  2 – AIC T5 (XJ-SA12-005) 5 Bay JBOD Tower
  3 – 5 x Hitachi “Saturn” E7K1000 1TB drives – HDE721010SLA330

  However we were hoping that we could use our existing HP XW8600 instead with the inbuilt LSI SAS controller card and forego the need to purchase the ATTO R380.

  I understand that the LSI unit only supports RAID 0, 1 and 10, but as I have no problem working in RAID 0 for my existing projects, I was wondering would the storage still be viable without the ATTO R380?

  Many thanks
  Brian

  Brian O’corrbui replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bob Zelin

  March 31, 2010 at 7:30 pm

  don’t be “penny wise and pound foolish”. Buy the ATTO R380 (or the cheaper single port ATTO R348 – same card, but only one port – you only need one port). This is a great card, it’s the Supported card, and does RAID 5 perfectly. This card is used by countless manufacturers in addition to AVID. Bite the bullet, and buy the ATTO.

  Bob zelin
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  Brian O’corrbui

  April 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm

  Bite the bullet I will! Cheers Bob, thanks for the advice!

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