Recent content by tphelps19

Any thoughts on software raid versus hardware raid? I was looking at FlexRaid, anyone have any experience with that? And with 23 hard drives, I'm really anxious to hear people's thoughts on if I should go hardware raid or software raid. And how many parity drives I should have. I will always...

I thought about maybe just buying something like this and having the entire raid run from it: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/raid/raid-controller-rs2sg244.html That is if they weren't $1500! :-/ I wonder if maybe the best answer wouldn't be to just get a new motherboard with...

I have twenty three (23) 3TB drives which of course are SATA III. I am trying to build a home theatre and I first tried to build a computer with two SAS PCI cards (each supporting 8 SATA ports) and then using the 9 on board SATA ports on my motherboard. I was then going to use FlexRaid...