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littlepigboy5
By littlepigboy5
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Hello,

I'm looking for a raid card that supports RAID 5 with at least 10 ports that will use either pci or pciex1

It also has to have an RJ-45 output so i can connect it to a switch, then to all of the computers in my house. also a question. My plan is to have an ethernet cable go from my router to my server computer, which will have the RAID and the RAID card, then to have the RAID CARD output an ethernet cable to a switch, then the switch will go to all the pc's in my house, will that cable from the RAID card also give my computers connection to the internet, or just the data from the RAID?

Thanks

I can help with programming and hardware.

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Are you looking for a RAID card or some new nonexisting multi use device?

 

RAID card does not equal to Network Card and vice versa. Its like asking for a audio port on your RAM stick.

 

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I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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Two things:

 

a raid card with that many ports will be expensive, especially if its brand new. (300-400+).

raid cards do not have ethernet ports on them.

 

 

What you're looking for is a NAS or building your own NAS.

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can i wire up to 10 devices to a NAS

can the NAS run Raid 5 with 10 drives

Do i need a keyboard and mouse and monitor to setup a NAS

do i still build a computer for a nas or do i buy a nas and stick drives in it.

I can help with programming and hardware.

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can i wire up to 10 devices to a NAS

can the NAS run Raid 5 with 10 drives

Do i need a keyboard and mouse and monitor to setup a NAS

do i still build a computer for a nas or do i buy a nas and stick drives in it.

For 10 drives you will likely need to build your own NAS system and load up FreeNAS OS on it. Why do you need 10 drives? With today's high capacity single drives seems pointless to have that amount, especially in raid 5.

Raid5 is possible with 10 drives, though i wouldn't recommend it, i would go with RAID 6 over 5.

If its a totally separate computer, then yes, you would. At least at first when you're setting it up.

answered above.

 

What is the purpose behind this NAS, maybe we can help you more if we had more information about it. such as:

 

use case?

budget?

why 10 drives?

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It sounds like you are describing a NAS.

 

You could buy a NAS from Synology, QNAP, etc. that supports more than 10 drives. Those will support RAID 5 and probably RAID 6.

 

Do you need to build your own? Or do you want to build your own?

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