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PCI or PCI-X SATA RAID Controller for Mac....does it exist?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I've spend the better half of 2 days trying to hunt a PCI or PCI-X SATA RAID Controller for my new PM G5. Does anyone have one or know of where to get one?
They abound for the PC world, and I find it funny that it's so hard to find one for the Mac (if they are even made!!) I know that Apple give us software RAID support, but I would rather my CPU's worry about rendering and not the RAID.
I have a nice SATA, 4 bay eternal case that I would hate to have waste.
Your help is appreciated!!!
- David
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Orange County, California
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Highpoint sells the 1820A card, though you would have to run internal cables out through another PCI slot.
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The Bighead
- MacBook Pro 15" Matte non-unibody 2.6 GHz, 4GB RAM, 120/SSD & 1TB/5400
- PM G4 Dual 1.25 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1x1TB Boot - 1x2TB TM Backup - 2x3TB Archive/Backup
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: netherlands
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if my memory serves me right, you can get a SATA Hardware RAID card in the Xserve as a BTO... maybe you can purchase it from Apple for your PMG5?
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MacBook Pro 13"/2.66 (09/2010), Mac Mini c2d/1.83 (01/2008)
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Sonnet Technologies offers two PCI-X eSATA 8-channel controllers, one with 4 internal+4 external ports (Tempo-X eSATA 4+4), and one with 8 external ports (Tempo-X eSATA 8). Although neither offers onboard (hardware) RAID, they both perform really well (up to 545MB/s with an 8-drive RAID) with the right drives using RAID 0 or RAID 10 (only with Tiger) without impacting CPU performance in a big way.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Hilton Head, SC
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Go to MacGurus.com they sell a bunch of different versions of host raid controllers for macs. I personally bought the NetCell raid controller... it does hardware 0,1 and XL. XL being raid 3... many say that raid 3 is best for video due to the way the raid algorithm works out for the majority of I/O called for in NLE enviornments.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Thanks for all of your help. The PCI-X card from Highpoint looks really nice. Supports RAID 10 too! I'll be purchasing one on Monday.
- David
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