I'm looking to buy a RAID card for a server I'm refurbishing/inheriting.
It will contain 8x 3.5" SATA II hard drives, so I'm looking for a RAID card that can connect to 8 hard drives.
However, I plan on running unRAID on this server, OR RAID 5 if unRAID falls through, so it would need to support RAID 5 as well.
I'm looking to keep this as absolutely cheap as possible, like under $150. I don't know if that will get me hardware RAID or just the ability to connect 8 hard drives, but either way, it needs to stay under that price.
I'm a little confused on the compatibilities between SAS, SCSI, SATA, all those, so the Newegg searching has been pretty tough so far.
Thanks for your time!
It will contain 8x 3.5" SATA II hard drives, so I'm looking for a RAID card that can connect to 8 hard drives.
However, I plan on running unRAID on this server, OR RAID 5 if unRAID falls through, so it would need to support RAID 5 as well.
I'm looking to keep this as absolutely cheap as possible, like under $150. I don't know if that will get me hardware RAID or just the ability to connect 8 hard drives, but either way, it needs to stay under that price.
I'm a little confused on the compatibilities between SAS, SCSI, SATA, all those, so the Newegg searching has been pretty tough so far.
Thanks for your time!






