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What is your favorite RAID controller?
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What is your favorite RAID controller?

Brand and model + comments are welcome.

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  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    I know my experience doesn't measure the length of time of many others, but the LSI-9260 has just been top notch in my experience. Powerful, easy on the system when rebuilding a drive, sufficiently resistant to data corruption under less than desirable circumstances, not entirely unaffordable.

  • Awmusic12635Awmusic12635 Member, Host Rep

    I have always been a fan of the LSI-9271/9266 RAID card

  • fapvpsfapvps Member
    edited October 2013

    I know and use LSI 9240's and 9260's but my favorites are the Adaptec 3405 and the 5405Z because of the superior real world performance.

  • edited October 2013

    Can't go wrong with LSI. IBM/HP/Dell/Intel all OEM a bunch of their storage controllers from LSI for good reason. FWIW, I'm running a mix of 9260/9266 RAID cards and 9207 HBAs. The only thing that annoys me is MegaCli - although very powerful, it's like they deliberately tried to make the switches/commands as cryptic as possible. Also, their WebBIOS is hideous :/

  • BrianHarrisonBrianHarrison Member, Patron Provider

    The LSI 9271 is a fantastic controller.

  • @Fliphost said:
    I have always been a fan of the LSI-9271/9266 RAID card

    Yep. 9271. 9266 is the old model. If you're using HDDs, there isn't much difference.

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