[Will unRAID use multiple HBAs to increase bandwith for RAID 5?]

3 hours ago, denishay said:

who would have thought there is a reason it's called *un*RAID

Didn't think I would have to pay for software with less features than the free stuff. My bad.

[Will unRAID use multiple HBAs to increase bandwith for RAID 5?]

5 minutes ago, Squid said:

unRaid isn't raid.  There is no striping involved across the disks.  While you can have 1 or 2 parity drives, each data drive contains it's own filesystem, and you are limited in access speed by the speed of the drives.

 

Setting up a cache pool however, you can choose multiple RAID levels, in which case you can max out your bandwidth because it will be striped.

I'm confused, LinusTechTips has done many videos with unRAID even being sponsored, and he always used RAID. In this video he even suggests using unRAID on the NAS. I feel like I'm looking at the wrong software.

[Will unRAID use multiple HBAs to increase bandwith for RAID 5?]

I plan on making a NAS with 8 drives in RAID 5. This will give me a significant increase in performance, my HBA card however only supports 6Gbps which would be a bottle neck. My question is, would unRAID be able to utilize two HBAs with 6Gbps to increase the total bandwidth? I have a google spread sheet of the individual parts here.