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Old May 18, 2009, 07:31 AM
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Hiya all....eh! LOL!!!!

Looking for a POSSIBLE raid controller to add to my PC. Must be PCI express 1x.

It will house 2 or more Vertex SSDs and cost no more than 300 hopefully....but it must be a GOOD name and speed.

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Old May 18, 2009, 07:47 AM
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Go with onboard. There is nothing wrong with ICH10R for non-Jmicron SSD's. PCIe x1 + SSD's = not good. You'll be hitting the max bandwidth of the bus long before onboard.
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Old May 18, 2009, 08:33 AM
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Im curious as to what you think of Behemoth's LSI SAS controller lowfat... you seem to be an expert on such things...
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Old May 18, 2009, 09:27 AM
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Im curious as to what you think of Behemoth's LSI SAS controller lowfat... you seem to be an expert on such things...
I don't see it listed in your sig.
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Old May 18, 2009, 09:34 AM
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PCIe X1 for any raid controller will be ass. 4x minimum or use the onboard RAID.
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Old May 18, 2009, 10:42 AM
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even with the jmicron i never see a slow down works great with my warps
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Old May 18, 2009, 06:25 PM
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Oh i know that my ICH 10R controller is enough....but I am just curious.
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@ lowfat: its an LSI SAS 1068e controller. Check out the Behemoth build log, im hitting 500mbps on a 4 disk short stroked raid 0
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Old June 27, 2009, 05:16 PM
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PCIe X1 for any raid controller will be ass. 4x minimum or use the onboard RAID.
i agree

just go with the ich10r
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Why would you want to use a Raid 1X controller instead of onboard?
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