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Jon Omiatek · April 28th, 2008, 01:44 PM

Any recommendations on a RAID card, other than apples OVERPRICED card. I am looking at the Highpoint 3522. I plan on running 2 raid 0's for the moment with 4 drives.

Thanks

Devin Termini · April 30th, 2008, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jon Omiatek

Any recommendations on a RAID card, other than apples OVERPRICED card. I am looking at the Highpoint 3522. I plan on running 2 raid 0's for the moment with 4 drives.

Thanks

I don't know of any other RAID cards that can be used in the Mac Pro other than the Apple RAID card. I would like to know an answer to this as well.

Jon Omiatek · May 1st, 2008, 01:43 PM

I have decided on the following

Highpoint 3522 Raid Card + 2 Infinband Cables $575
Enhanced Technology 8 Bay Enclosure $475
8 Seagate 7200.11 1TB drives $1600
Raid 5 or 6, haven't decided yet... Should get 450mb/s or more depending
on the amount of free space on the raid. Should be somewhere in the
6TB range.

I was also thinking of building two seperate raids with two 5 drive RAID 5's. It should be sufficent to support my EX1 footage.

April 28th, 2008, 01:44 PM	#1
Jon Omiatek Major Player Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 755	Recommend a good RAID card for new mac pro?? Any recommendations on a RAID card, other than apples OVERPRICED card. I am looking at the Highpoint 3522. I plan on running 2 raid 0's for the moment with 4 drives. Thanks

May 1st, 2008, 01:43 PM	#3
Jon Omiatek Major Player Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 755	I have decided on the following Highpoint 3522 Raid Card + 2 Infinband Cables $575 Enhanced Technology 8 Bay Enclosure $475 8 Seagate 7200.11 1TB drives $1600 Raid 5 or 6, haven't decided yet... Should get 450mb/s or more depending on the amount of free space on the raid. Should be somewhere in the 6TB range. I was also thinking of building two seperate raids with two 5 drive RAID 5's. It should be sufficent to support my EX1 footage.