Right, to rephrase I meant I don't intend to parity all of them, but I may pair up 2 of them, etc.You don't buy a $1000 RAID card if you aren't going to use RAID levels with parity.
My main problem is that it has to be a SINGLE slot, All other ports have graphics cards, X_X. So I am in the same boat.I was going to buy it simply to JBOD for WHS.. I wanted something with a lot of ports in a single slot
Thats nice, but I definitely want HARDWARE raid heh .I found a card with 16 ports but no hardware raid for half the price of the Areca. Im pretty sure its supported on Solaris. Newegg Link
Motherboards that have the ICH or Marvell controllers etc? Those are hardware or software raid? Can someone explain exactly ?
But yea I need something that takes 10 HDDs, has at Raid 0, and Raid 1, good performance, enough if I ever go insane and get 10 SSD's and Raid 0 all of them, hehe that would be usable. Thats the idea heh!
If anyone has a cheaper solution though I am all ears .
OS: Vista64/Windows 7 and Ubuntu, No Solaris, sorry, never played with it, though should I?