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I just finished building a new desktop that I hope to last a few years before it needs to be replaced. MSI Z87 XPOWER motherboard, i4770K CPU (water cooled for future overclocking), R9 290X GPU, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD OS drive, 6x3TB HDDs for storage and shoved it all in to a Cooler Master COSMOS 2 case. Everything about this system screamed except the HDDs. The 3TB drives were previously in an external box attached to a Highpoint RocketRAID card. The performance was crap at best (seriously, avoid Highpoint stuff at all costs) and the drivers crashed regularly.
For this build I decided to bring the drives back internal, which is why I picked the MSI Z87 XPOWER because it has 10 6GB/s SATA ports on board, and the case to fit them in. I configured the 6x3TB drives in to a RAID 5 array using the on-board Intel RAID controller. While restoring data to the array I found that after a few minutes write speeds would slow down to as little as 4.5MB/s. So after abandoning that idea I tried to set up RAID Within Windows directly. No dice, Windows 8.1's RAID 5 is lacking (as in, non-existent, at least by default and software alternatives just didn't seem to exist.)
Enter the LSI MegaRAID 9271-8i / LSI00330. I decided to get serious with my storage and I wanted a card that would scream and would not be a bottleneck in my system. This card is it. I wanted a card that could support at least 6 drives. This paired with a couple of the "3WARE Cable, 1 Unit Of 1 Meter Multi-lane Internal (SFF-8087) Serial Ata Breakout" cables gets you 8 drives.Read more ›
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I have a Adaptec 6805E purchased 2 years ago. I am happy with it but feel like the speed is a little bit slow than expected. But it works without any problem so I thought it's probably a rad card should be, until I got this one. So far I only put an Intel 520 240Gb SSD on it. It was about 350-400MB read/write but now I have 400-450 read/write. I can feel the difference when I use this SSD to boot, it takes only few seconds to be ready to use. Another thing make me happy is it doesn't get hot. I have attached a small fan on 6805E but it is easy to get to 50-60 degrees, never have this issue with LSI's card. I should have spent more to get this card two years go. I am planning to make a raid 5 and we will see how it goes.
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love it, the speed with SSDs is awesome, programs load amazingly fast, bit of a pain to setup, it would not reorganize my mouse in the setup so I had to use the tab key to move around, but finely worked through it and got it running.
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