December 2, 201411 yr Hey Everyone, Building a new system... not exactly sure what is a better choice.. System Specs ASUS AM1I-A AM1 AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05GHz Socket AM1 25W Desktop Processor Want something that's low in power, cheap and has ECC Sad thing is the most sata ports available is 2 or 4.... The board does have 1 PCI-Express x4 slot.. Currently Have 2 Reds and 4 Greens, that I will move over.. So what are my options? HighPoint RocketRAID 2680 SGL PCI-Express x4 Low Profile SATA / SAS RAID Controller Card - $107.99 SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI-Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controller - -$116.99 Are those overkill? Do I need PCI-Express X4? Currently with my 5 year old mobo, sata2.. X 6 I'm getting around 30-35mbs.. would I be getting the same? Never used a controller card before?
December 2, 201411 yr With 6 disks you want an x4 card. x1 wouldn't be enough and x2 cards are rare. The SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 is widely used for unRAID. Is 30-35mbs your write speed or parity check?
December 3, 201411 yr Author With 6 disks you want an x4 card. x1 wouldn't be enough and x2 cards are rare. The SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 is widely used for unRAID. Is 30-35mbs your write speed or parity check? write speed LOL parity right now is like 120mbs
December 12, 201411 yr Currently, I have a 7TB unRAID server (1 2TB Parity Drive, 3 2TB data drives, and 1 1TB data drive). I'm running out of data space and need to add a drive, but with the increasing size of drives out there I'm not quite sure what upgrade process is best. Is there any school of thought on what is best in these situations?
December 12, 201411 yr The three basic strategies are: Add additional disks, each up to 2TB in size (constrained by current parity) Upgrade your existing 1TB disk to a 2TB (constrained by current parity) Upgrade your parity to a larger disk. This allows you to reuse your existing parity as a data disk, and add/upgrade disks of a larger capacity. The third one gives you the most flexibility but costs the most.
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