Can someone recommend a non-RAID port multiplier card for this that will pass S.M.A.R.T. data to Windows
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Can't speak specifically to Windows. But Silicon Image 3132 chipset cards allow me to pull SMART data from the drives in FreeBSD. Plus most Silicon Image cards have a RAID and non-RAID firmware. I flashed mine to non-RAID and use ZFS Raid-Z.
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You might consider the HP MediaVault instead; which lets you set up and manage a Raid mirrored drive set easily via your PC interface and break the raid to put the copy into an Safety Deposit box. It uses inexpensive 500gb drives. I have two of them and they work great, super easy to manage compared to most NAS I have used.
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With a raid card you wont have to rely on getting the same motherboard chipset that the raid was created on which can be difficult a few years after purchase. You can just pop this in a new motherboard and it would just work without worries of having to reconfigure onboard raid and risk corrupting or overwriting the data already on the drives, which is way to easy to do.
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You don't need a separate card, there is highpoint controller bundled with raid tower
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I contacted startech & they said it will work with up to 6 drives per port with multiport external bays. SO a a total of 12 drivers per card will work. They said they have tested & has been verified. I have 2 mediasonic non raid bays i will try to see if it works when i get the card
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Yes. That's exactly what I bought it for - extra ports. There is a message that pops up on booting about RAID but extra ports work as intended.
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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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Yes, as long as the controller (in the PC) driver is compatible with the win environment. We use the LSI Megaraid 9260-8I and it works like a champ. We use this under WINSERV 2012 Essentials (both original and the R2 just out) with no problem. If the PC provides the power from it's internal power supply use two different buss lines from the supply. A single line powering all 4 disks can cause voltage drops during high activity that may cause errors in the disks I/O and cause the raid to fall out of sync.Also use very high quality SATA lines from the PC controller to the backplane.
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I don't believe so; I have another RAID card in the system (not built in to the motherboard) and both work just fine together.
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I don't think so. This is just a cheap alternative to more expensive RAID products.However, I think it will work on the specified chipset you mention. But definitely not in RAID mode.
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its an explander card it plugs into the raid controller to add a bunch more ports to the controller to add a lot more drives then the controller can handle natively
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Use the Intel Raid Controller that is on your motherboard if you are going RAID 0, that's what I would do. I am using the card for an SSD which was perfect for my computer, big jump in performance. Not sure how it would work under RAID 0, seeing how I have never used it for that. Hope this helps.
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This is not a NAS it is a RAID so no you cannot use it without the card unless you hook it to a computer with other external sata ports. It does always require a system to work.
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Yes, this card can be used as non-raid. I used this card just to add an extra sata hard drive because my older MB only had two sata ports.
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I believe you can only do a software RAID 0 or 1, but this card is really NOT meant for that! It is the best way to give your ssd a sata 6.0 connection on an older motherboard. Also, you only want to connect ONE ssd to this card to get the maximum speed!
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I use a Kingston 32 GB Data Locker on Windows with no problems to date. Just follow the directions on the Data Traveler.*
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.