do i need a raid card for a server.

[kyle_L]

i have a 10 bay hot swap rack thing and a ibm pentium 3 xeon server. do i need a raid card to make this work and what kind of cable do i need to connect them, i think its a ultra scsi cable. im at a loss on how to get this to work that and im bored.

[CMetaphor]

Normally... yes. Do you have a link to the hot swap bay and/or the server?

[kyle_L]

and id anyone can tell me of a cheap raid card for these. i would like to pick one up. i know its not worth it for the perfomance cuase my hdds are only 10gig ones but i would like to mess around with raid.

[Phobia]

are your harddrives sata, or scsi?

NCIX.com - Buy Syba PCI-3114-4IR-01 PCI SATA Controller Card 4-PORT W/ RAID 0/1/0+1/5 Software - SY-SA3114-4R In Canada. That's a really cheap sata raid card. Now its not a hardware raid, but for 30$ thats pretty decent..

If you want to get a hardware raid card, i'd suggest either 3ware or areca

[CMetaphor]

Something like this perhaps?
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ADAPTEC-2130SLP-U320-SCSI-RAID-128MB-1C-2093400_W0QQitemZ400038556696QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH _DefaultDomain_0?hash=item400038556696&_trksid=p32 86.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A 1|240%3A1318

[kyle_L]

i will find the link to the server but i have no idea what the hotswap bay is.

[kyle_L]

IBM eServer? xSeries® 250 (86656RY) - Product details and features - DealTime is about the best i can find. mine has 2 proc's and 2.5gig ram. what about a pci raid card for my computer to connect to this hotswap bay.

and there scsi hdd's

[kyle_L]

will this work for my pc not the server Adaptec - Adaptec SCSI Card 29160
can i not run the raid off my mobo. remember that i don't care about performance i just wana play with something new.

[lowfat]

You linked to a server, not a hotswap bay. They are completely different things.

[kyle_L]

i will upload a pick of the hotswap bay in the morning after i charge some batteries. i cannot find it on the net cause i dont know what its called.