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Hello! I've been looking for a 16-port RAID card for my new server project, and could use some recommendations. I don't want to spend too much on it, so I've currently narrowed it down to 2 choices (1, 2) but am open to any other options in that price range.
I'm unsure which of the 2 is better, because the Tyan card has an XOR engine built in as well as cache RAM onboard, while the other card is 6GB/s like my hard drives and uses a PCI-E x16 interface, but lacks an onboard RAID engine and cache.
The 6GB/s isn't really useful right now since I'm using regular HDD's, but the upgrade path tu future drives is nice, as well as the extra bandwidth an x16 interface provides.
So, which one do you guys recommend? Or should I look at something else? Thanks for looking!
I'm unsure which of the 2 is better, because the Tyan card has an XOR engine built in as well as cache RAM onboard, while the other card is 6GB/s like my hard drives and uses a PCI-E x16 interface, but lacks an onboard RAID engine and cache.
The 6GB/s isn't really useful right now since I'm using regular HDD's, but the upgrade path tu future drives is nice, as well as the extra bandwidth an x16 interface provides.
So, which one do you guys recommend? Or should I look at something else? Thanks for looking!