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Old May 22, 2009, 03:39 PM
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onboard will do bumfloss. If your doing raid higher than 1 on your motherboard an aftermarket raid card would be advised. Something in the $350+ dollar range for a RAID card will give you the performance you want for RAID 5 or RAID 10, otherwise the net gain in performance will be moot.
unless of course your a complete nut like me with aspirations to fully utilize the 128 device max of my SAS raid card
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a good raid card is 300+
a used one for that price will work wonders.
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