About Raid cards

[GoTo3-UY]

Hello, I have a Storage server with security cameras. I have 2 WD Purple drives and I am planning on buying 4 or 6 more, I need a RAID card to make a RAID 0.

Which Card do you recommend me? data rate is not important, with a maximum 10MB/s is enough.

 

I been looking at these https://www.amazon.com/SAS9211-8I-8PORT-Int-Sata-Pcie/dp/B002RL8I7M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473121575&sr=8-1&keywords=lsi+raid+controller

But there are a lot of different models, I don't know what to pick.

 

Thanks

[unijab]

You probably dont want raid 0 if you plan on keeping the saved files long term.

[GoTo3-UY]

2 minutes ago, unijab said:

You probably dont want raid 0 if you plan on keeping the saved files long term.

I need lots of capacity, which raid configuration is best for maximum capacity?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, GoTo3-UY said:

I need lots of capacity, which raid configuration is best for maximum capacity?

raid 5/6. Id suggest using something like a synology nas. Much easier and will just work.

[GoTo3-UY]

56 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

raid 5/6. Id suggest using something like a synology nas. Much easier and will just work.

But I don't need the error correction feature on RAID 5, it uses a lot of space. I need maximum capacity, only RAID 0 gives me that

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, GoTo3-UY said:

But I don't need the error correction feature on RAID 5, it uses a lot of space. I need maximum capacity, only RAID 0 gives me that

But if one drives fails, you lose all your data. You don't want that.

[GoTo3-UY]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

But if one drives fails, you lose all your data. You don't want that.

On my case, I don't mind losing all the data. Which RAID card do you recommend me?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, GoTo3-UY said:

On my case, I don't mind losing all the data. Which RAID card do you recommend me?

What server?

Specs?

What drives?

What OS?

Whats slots do you have open?

Do you want to be able to expand it later?

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, GoTo3-UY said:

On my case, I don't mind losing all the data. Which RAID card do you recommend me?

RAID 5 isn't that bad for space, you only lose 1 disk worth of space. RAID 6 is 2 disks. RAID 0 sure is 100% space efficient but unless the data is temporary or backed up multiple times a day is actually rather a useless RAID level.

[GoTo3-UY]

What server? Custom PC

Specs?: Intel Core i7 4770 - 16 GB Ram 

What drives?: Western Digital Purple

What OS?: Windows Server 2012 - I could install Windows 10 if RAID card is not compatible with Server 2012

Whats slots do you have open?: PCI / PCI Express

Do you want to be able to expand it later: No

 

I need 8 SATA ports

[GoTo3-UY]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

RAID 5 isn't that bad for space, you only lose 1 disk worth of space. RAID 6 is 2 disks. RAID 0 sure is 100% space efficient but unless the data is temporary or backed up multiple times a day is actually rather a useless RAID level.

The problem is, I can't buckup all the data every week, it is just too much size. I don't need the old recording data.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, GoTo3-UY said:

The problem is, I can't buckup all the data every week, it is just too much size. I don't need the old recording data.

Its probably going to fail when you need the recording. Id get rid of one drives capicity for some redundancy.

 

FOr a raid card, Id get a used dell h700 from ebay. There about 100 and much better than any other raid card for that price.

 

If you want new look up something like a lsi 9240-8i

[unijab]

Use LVM... or span volumes

[kirashi]

Is the server running Windows? If so, you can always software RAID them. This is also known as "disk pooling" and works quite well if you just want maximum storage by treating all the drives as one massive drive.

[GoTo3-UY]

On 9/6/2016 at 11:27 PM, kirashi said:

Is the server running Windows? If so, you can always software RAID them. This is also known as "disk pooling" and works quite well if you just want maximum storage by treating all the drives as one massive drive.

Thanks for the response and sorry for the late reply. My motherboard doesn't have enough SATA ports so I would need a card anyway