this card has 4 ports, but does NOT support RAID 5?
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Raid 5 is much more complex computation-wise than RAID 0/1 and requires a more complex on-board processor to handle, thus it's rare to see on cards of this price range and if one at this price point offered it I would be wary of using it. Raid 5 can be implemented "poorly" and lose parity thus negating it's purpose. I would also recommend looking at other drive array solutions as RAID 5 has fallen out of favor in recent years. RAID 6, RAID 10 and things like ZFS have a lot more to offer these days. This card is great if you just need to add some disks or replace a faulty on-board SATA controller (why I bought it)
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This card supports RAID-0 and RAID-1 only setup. It does not support RAID-5
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Raid 5 is much more complex computation-wise than RAID 0/1 and requires a more complex on-board processor to handle, thus it's rare to see on cards of this price range and if one at this price point offered it I would be wary of using it. Raid 5 can be implemented "poorly" and lose parity thus negating it's purpose. I would also recommend looking at other drive array solutions as RAID 5 has fallen out of favor in recent years. RAID 6, RAID 10 and things like ZFS have a lot more to offer these days. This card is great if you just need to add some disks or replace a faulty on-board SATA controller (why I bought it) Raid 5 is much more complex computation-wise than RAID 0/1 and requires a more complex on-board processor to handle, thus it's rare to see on cards of this price range and if one at this price point offered it I would be wary of using it. Raid 5 can be implemented "poorly" and lose parity thus negating it's purpose. I would also recommend looking at other drive array solutions as RAID 5 has fallen out of favor in recent years. RAID 6, RAID 10 and things like ZFS have a lot more to offer these days. This card is great if you just need to add some disks or... » Read More Raid 5 is much more complex computation-wise than RAID 0/1 and requires a more complex on-board processor to handle, thus it's rare to see on cards of this price range and if one at this price point offered it I would be wary of using it. Raid 5 can be implemented "poorly" and lose parity thus negating it's purpose. I would also recommend looking at other drive array solutions as RAID 5 has fallen out of favor in recent years. RAID 6, RAID 10 and things like ZFS have a lot more to offer these days. This card is great if you just need to add some disks or replace a faulty on-board SATA controller (why I bought it) « Show Less
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Will the RAID work? Sure. This is handled by the card itself. You just have to make sure you're using the proper drivers.Will the filesystem itself work across operating systems? Maybe. ExFAT, FAT, and NTFS have support on Windows, OSX, and Linux. More cutting edge filesystems like BTRFS are limited to Linux.
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The card doesn't implement RAID, so if the device you connect to it supports RAID 1 it should work.
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It should work as RAID set, if you do not need to see multiple drives, but if you want USB3.0 adapter support port multiplier protocol, look for "U3eSATA" in AMAZON
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it depends on which server / RAID card u r connecting it to, on the expander side u require cable with the SFF8087 connectors
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Yes, that's what I currently have it running with. However do NOT use the drivers that come in the box for the raid controller.
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Thank you. The board is an ASUS Sabertooth Z87 with a RAID controller onboard. I want to use both a RAID data array and SSD drives for OS. I am told the board can do this but I'm unsure about setup of this feature and thought the card may be an easier way to control the array and set the BIOS for hot swap SATA and let the card control the array. Maybe I should look at a different RAID card.
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I have 5 WDC GREEN 3TB drives in mine and it works fine in Raid5 on Windows7 64
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This card acts as a port multiplier for peripheral raid controllers. There is a list of compatible controllers if you check out Intel's website; one typical example is the LSI SAS9260-4I. That controller is limited to 4 hard disks (refer to SAS to SATA fan-out cables) because it only has one plug. The logic of the processor is capable of more, and this card compliments that function. It takes that one plug (SAS to SAS) and expands it up to 20 hard disks via the remaining 5 SAS ports. If you're not familiar with RAID, it basically gives you the ability to create arrays of drives to sync for capacity, redundancy and I/O performance. Short story - you can control a lot more drives on the same computer using this card; typically installed on large servers and by people with terabytes of data to store.
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I have hooked up a 8TB GTech raid and it works every time. Also other accessories like monitors/Ethernet. But remember, it's thunderbolt only.
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I don't really know.It could be, that this will work.I'm running mine with 4x3TB in RAID 5 with no problems.
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I am not sure about the hot spare but it can be configured with RAID5 using 3 drives.
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The manual states you must have at least a 500 wattage power supply for the card to work. I have the Raidmax ATX 500 Power supply RX-500af-b and it works perfectly with no problems and i have my amd fx-630 over clocked to 3.8ghz and the xfx on auto boost (using the cd program that come with the card)
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The card supports a 4-Bay e-Sata enclosure on my MacPro with no problems and 3X the performance of USB 2.0. From what I have read in the comments on Amazon, the card will only support one multiport device per card because the port multiplier only seems to apply to one port. I expect to connect another multi-bay enclosure in the future but it will be one with built-in RAID so that it only presents a one device appearance to the card.
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Yes. I installed two of these into servers running windows 2012 server 64-bit running raid 5. However, this unit doesn't have built-in raid. You would still need a raid card or have a motherboard that has raid built-in to achieve raid 5 however.
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Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
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The one I bought has hardware raid. I have 4 * 1tb drives installed configured as RAID 5.