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RAID cards take up precious PCIe slots You'll need all those ports for other PCIe devices Unlike the gaming sector, where the PCIe slot is synonymous with GPUs, there are a ton of devices you can ...
We tested four ATA PCI RAID cards that combine two ATA drives to create one large, fast volume using the latest, 133- MBps version of ATA: Acard’s AEC-6880M/ATA-133 RAID, Miglia’s Alchemy ATA ...
One of HighPoint's flagship cards for servers, the NVMe Gen 4 SSD7540, proves capable of operation while submerged in "an electrically non-conductive liquid", most likely mineral oil.
Add-in RAID cards can be used to add RAID capabilities to a system or to leverage a true hardware RAID configuration. Configuring an array with a hardware RAID controller is fairly straightforward.
With those objectives in mind, after a lot of research, I chose a hardware-based RAID solution: I replaced multiple external drives with a LaCie 5Big Thunderbolt 2 using RAID 10.
This card connects more often than not via the motherboards PCI bus but we are starting to see the emergence of PCI-E cards as time goes on. On a server level, we also see PCI-X cards. When compared ...
Raid card is the Dell PERC 6i, it is bootable from bios. I guess I am only using it because its in the server. I am not a linux savy person so restoring Ubuntu from backups seems like a painful ...