Recommendations on RAID card

VoldersManCave · February 11, 2019

I built a server using my old mining rig to re-purpose it and I am searching for a cheap RAID card that either uses SAS connectors to get the desired amount of drives connected to it, or uses SATA ports directly on the card. I am obviously looking for a card that is inexpensive but fully supports the SATA 3 standard and also has large disk support for 3TB and up. I don't really know what to look for because often times a lot of descriptions and spec sheets are vague based on the drive size limitations. I was just wondering if anyone had any good experience with a good inexpensive RAID solution they could tell me. Thanks for your time!

SupaKomputa · February 11, 2019

any modern motherboard supports raid, why buy a card?

VoldersManCave · February 11, 2019

I have a Asrock H110 Pro BTC+ and it does not support raid. It only has 4 SATA ports that do not support RAID. It has 1 16x PCI-e slot and 12 1x slots. It was designed for mining. I am currently using an SSD to run Windows 10 and I have 3 3TB Drives running on it. I am no longer using it for the purposes of mining. It runs a Celeron G3930 Dual core 2.9GHz CPU and I am going to upgrade the RAM from 4GB to at least 16. It is running ok for now just as a basic file server but I want the redundancy of RAID for data protection.