Cheapest raid card you know

[Viesulis]

I am building cheapass server for movies and pictures and stuff and i have found two drives that i want to raid1 them.

[m0k]

a motherboard.

[Viesulis]

what softwere to make a raid1

 

[Squish4058]

1 minute ago, mok said:

a motherboard.

Yeah most Asus boards and others (only used asus) support intels built in raid thing, 

edit if you really want the cheapest, why are you not on ebay sorting raid cards by price

[Viesulis]

do you think i have a good mb if i want cheapo raid cards 

no i have some intel board and a core 2 dou 1gb ram 

but i think its a workstation mb?

[Oshino Shinobu]

A lot of modern(ish) boards will have integrated RAID controllers. They tend to only support simple levels of RAID, but RAID 1 is pretty much always on there. 

 

Even if you don't have hardware RAID, you can just use software RAID, which costs nothing. 

[Viesulis]

just checked i have some ecc memory 

does the lga 771 to 775 still work with ecc?

[scottyseng]

13 hours ago, Viesulis said:

just checked i have some ecc memory 

does the lga 771 to 775 still work with ecc?

No, you need one of Intel's C series enterprise chipsets for proper ECC support. You also need a Xeon or a modern Celeron or i3. I'm pretty sure in the Core 2 Duo days, only the Xeons had ECC.

[jj9987]

Regarding RAID cards - correct me, if I'm wrong, but it is suggested to stay away from cheap ones. If the RAID card fails, all of your data may be lost due to issues with re-building RAID.

[scottyseng]

8 hours ago, jj9987 said:

Regarding RAID cards - correct me, if I'm wrong, but it is suggested to stay away from cheap ones. If the RAID card fails, all of your data may be lost due to issues with re-building RAID.

It is. The lower end RAID cards aren't really proper RAID cards...but software RAID on a card (It still relies on the system memory to run correctly). Not to mention if the power goes out, things can get lost.

[mineblaster]

lsi hba controllers will do raid 0 and 1 the higher controllers will have raid 5 50 6 60

[AshleyAshes]

  Might be a better situation for FlexRAID rather than RAID1 or the like.

[Electronics Wizardy]

On 8/26/2016 at 3:41 PM, Viesulis said:

I am building cheapass server for movies and pictures and stuff and i have found two drives that i want to raid1 them.

You can use software raid built into most OS's

 

Id probably use btrfs on linux.