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#166188 5-Mar-2015 13:24
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I have a virtualised HP ML110 which runs great with what I need it to apart from disk performance.

Disk performance is slow and bring the whole machine to it's knees when there is any disk activity.

Looking to buy a cheap SATA Raid controller preferably with cache and battery. I am using independant disks at the moment but would like a raid 1 setup in the future for simple fault tolerance on these drives.





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  #1251636 5-Mar-2015 13:24
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Hey, have you listed a price, location and how much shipping would be to other parts of New Zealand? Also if you are asking for a PM make sure your Privacy settings allow your account to receive PM otherwise people can't contact you. Also note if you are selling something we ask you to offer to other members first. Links to private sales (including Trade Me posts) aren't accepted anymore and will be removed.




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  #1251681 5-Mar-2015 14:12
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How many drives in your RAID array?
RAID controllers with more than 4 ports are much more expensive.
Look at RocketRAID.




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  #1251684 5-Mar-2015 14:24
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I have a second hand rocketraid which handles sata raid (I had 4 x SSD in RAID 0 with it getting 1.2GB/s.




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  #1251753 5-Mar-2015 15:30
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Sideface: How many drives in your RAID array?


2 Drives at the moment, soon to be 4.

I could get away with just the 2 drives, performance is more of an issue than redundancy as there isnt really any critical data stored and have daily backups.





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  #1251764 5-Mar-2015 16:09
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Depending on what type of slot you have to plug it into you could buy a Dell Perc card http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/servers/server-components/auction-853426705.htm

I
 have one in a spare graphics slot in my home built server.

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  #1251968 5-Mar-2015 22:37
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Whatever you buy, check it can handle over 2TB drives if it is a bit old. I had some stupid one that wouldnt, so it was fine when i was running 8 2TB's in the external box, but when I wanted to go to bigger ones, it had a fit with the 4kB things and the size of it.




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