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Sp`ange

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I don't keep up with hardware much these days and I'm having trouble finding a RAID solution that fits my needs. Mostly I've been looking through CDW and Newegg trying to find stuff and I end up with little to nothing in the way of my criteria. Anyone know much about desktop solutions?

Specs:

SATA II support
Supports 4 drives
RAID5/10
PCI Expresss 8x
MAC OS 10.5 Support

I don't care if it is esata or sata. If esata, then I need to find a decent enclosure too.
 
Are you looking for a RAID card or a NAS that has RAID capabilities? Given those requirements listed, you won't find a "desktop" RAID card, but only server offerings. That brings up the price quite a bit too.

For RAID cards, I've always liked 3ware. People say these days that 3ware has slipped and their cards don't perform well against Adaptec's offerings. I don't know the specifics. All I know is that 3ware has native Linux support and the 3 cards I've used have worked well for me.

3ware 9650SE-12ML
Costly. If you don't mind using a PCI Express x4 card, then 9650SE-4LPML would be significantly cheaper.

OS X is supported by them.
 
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hawk82 said:
Are you looking for a RAID card or a NAS that has RAID capabilities? Given those requirements listed, you won't find a "desktop" RAID card, but only server offerings. That brings up the price quite a bit too.

For RAID cards, I've always liked 3ware. People say these days that 3ware has slipped and their cards don't perform well against Adaptec's offerings. I don't know the specifics. All I know is that 3ware has native Linux support and the 3 cards I've used have worked well for me.

3ware 9650SE-12ML
Costly. If you don't mind using a PCI Express x4 card, then 9650SE-4LPML would be significantly cheaper.

OS X is supported by them.
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I've been told really good things about 3Ware stuff, but everything I saw on Newegg didn't have anything about OSX compatibility.


Floptical said:
Why would you want a desktop raid?
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I have 9GB of RAM and a badass video card. My performance bottleneck is from disk reads and writes.
 
Sp`ange said:
I've been told really good things about 3Ware stuff, but everything I saw on Newegg didn't have anything about OSX compatibility.
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Don't take everything you see on Newegg as the last word. Always check with the manufacturer first, especially warranties. Hence why I posted a link to 3ware's support page listing OS X compatibility.
 
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