Is this card a bootable raid card?
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Yes, but why use this old card now for RAID? The SATA supports only 150 MB/s. Most new drives will be SATA III, 6Gb/s or up to 550 GB/s. Just my $0.02 worth.
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This card is specifically meant to only run with PCI/ PCI RAID based setup. it is not a PCI Express compatible as shown in the Picture.
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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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It supports RAID 0 with excellent performance. That is my current configuration. Note that there is no fault tolerance with RAID 0 so you need to regularly backup your data.
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Yes, it is bootable. You need to format it appropriately though. Intel Mac: GUID partition. PPC: HFS+
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Hello fellow Transcend card user: First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck.
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I dont know since I only tried one drive in non RAID mode but it will boot windows from the one drive
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It supports RAID 0,1, and 5, but these are drivers that are installed from the CD that comes in the box. Most bios come with RAID DRIVERS. Does it have a bios raid, no. Does it have raid drivers that the bios supports - yes.
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This is not a completely hardware RAID. It is called hardware assisted. That means it has logic on the board to calculate the RAID 5 "hashes". You still need a special driver on the host machine to do a lot of the work. I do that on an Ubuntu Linux server, but it's a pain. Every time a new kernel comes out that has new kernel headers, I have to recompile the driver source code. With disk space as cheap as it is these days, I gave up on RAID 5 and just mirror (RAID 2) each drive, so that if I have a failure of the interface card or the SansDigital drive enclosure, I can just pull out a drive and use it instead. I wouldn't even consider using a specialized RAID interface unless I had on-site spares of all parts or a disaster recovery plan. Too big a risk of losing everything because you can't get parts. There are disk enclosures ($$$) that do mirroring in hardware, but use a standard EIDE or USB interface so no special host interface is needed. Good Luck
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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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Yes, you can just use it as a regular SATA controller, you don't have to set up RAID if you don't want to. That's how I use it.
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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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most definitely it can boot via this card.I am using it as the source for sata drives and have only one HD on itand of course it boots, the bios has to see it then the drive and boot sequence is set in order of preference.
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Yes... but PCIe not PCI and likely raid depends on o/s drivers. We used software raid. You will have to add a bracket if you want to use 2 x 2.5" drive (s) and only a short PCIe card will fit.
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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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Yes - this version of the 128GB CF 1050X UDMA7 is firmware bootable for ML. You can record on the card until it is full.
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This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing drives! Good luck. This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing... » Read More This card is not capable of Hardware RAID configurations. If you were previously using your motherboard for that functionality then you will lose it when you move over your hard drives to this card. If you still want to keep some form of RAID then you could look into Software RAID. Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Just keep in mind that Software RAID does not perform as fast as Hardware RAID and I don't recommend it unless it's your only option or you just need it for data redundancy. Remember to back up your data if you are going to try and setup a Software RAID on your existing drives! Good luck. « Show Less