Questions about raids

[Ait'al]

Is this a good raid card
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=132610

and is it possible to upgrade the drive to allow it to do more raid setups?

what are the different raid setups? I know what 0 1 and 0+1 are but what are the 5 and 10 and 50, and the 3 and stuff i saw on some of the other cards?

[Rbstr]

any IDE or SATA drive can do any raid, as long as all the drives are the same size.

ok forget every config except 0, 1, and 5,(mabee 3) becauase the others aren't worth the hassle in my POV

Basicaly 3 takes 3 drives and makes a raid 0 type thing with 2 of them and the 3rd drive becomes the safety drive to prevend data loss, but its prefomance is only a bit better than raid 1

5 takes 3 drives and spreds the parity information over all of the drives like raid 3 but with no dedicated parity (safety) drive so its preformance is a bit better,

the best preformance is the raid 0 the most safe is the raid 1.

If you want to know more do a google on it

That card looks good to me, but if you have a new Intel 875 or 865 with the onboard raid chip the IRCH 5 or something like that you can do a JBOD, raid 0, 1, or 0+1(i think)

[NoSurrender]

yea id stick with the bulit in raid on most newer motherboards.

[Smaug]

Don't buy that card unless you decide on hooking up 6 drives. If you just want to do a basic stripped array(RAID 0) or mirrored array(RAID 1) consisting of 2 drives just get a card with 2 ports. I got one for 60 bucks on newegg.

[Ait'al]

I am going ot hook up six drives eventually. Im just getting info for when i upgrade from a basic one or two drives to the full 6.