silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid

#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid full#
#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid software#
#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid windows#

The card as delivered plugged into an empty PCI slot easy enough. This is an inexpensive card offering RAID0,1,5,10 & JBOD. The board chosen used a chipset from SilconImage – the Sil3114. The Gigabyte board I was moving to did not, so I had to add an additional RAID controller on a PCI card. The server they came from, an old MSI AMD motherboard had a Promise RAID controller built in. It was not without difficulty.īoth server’s had the OS on a third non RAIDed drive, so i didn’t have to worry about being able to boot from them (thank god!) I can get some of it back, but given my expertise with this type of application, I now bear some humiliation for going cheap on my raid card.I recently had the experience of moving a pair of RAID1 storage disks from one server to another.

#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid full#

It was half full of backup data, and that's alot of data to lose. I regret it now, as I have 3x500GB disks in there, for a RAID5 volume of 1.0TB. Overall Review: I own one of these which came as a part of an external HDD enclosure.

#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid software#

BUT, this software doesn't even think about that. Per RAID5, this should be an easy fix to restore the parity striped data back onto disk 3. After the destabilizing of the array, the software showed me 2 volumes intact, with one orphan volume.

#Silicon image sil3132 softraid 5 controller non raid windows#

The windows RAID utility is mildly useful for creating arrays, but management of the arrays is just bad. Now I'm stuck trying to run a recovery on it with GetDataBack. This just happened to me, and i basically got one error event after another. Power outage (disorderly shutdown) can destabilize the whole array. Perhaps a good value for a RAID0 or RAID1 While it's annoying, this card at least brings all of the sub-devices online pretty quickly after one fails, leaving a system up and running. This is due to the limitations of port multipliers, and not these HBAs. Nothe that one thing to be careful about is that port multipliers will reset ALL drives if one drive resets. Maybe different on different motherboards, but out of 4 add-on cards and an intel built-in card, this was, despite being lackluster, the only one that was stable, and had the best performance and functionality.

Those both did not support FIS / tagging / AHCI causing I/O timeouts and horrible performance. I've tried Marvel SATA-II cards and AsMedia ASM1061 SATA-III cards. It does support command queuing and FIS for multipliers, but it runs slower than SATA-I performance. The performance is about 100MB/sec total for all drives combined on one port, or 70MB/sec for one drive on one port.

If you don't re-flash it with the non-RAID firmware, the card is pretty lame. Port multipliers work on the top port, but not the bottom port. Overall Review: It's a cheap card and only suitable for SATA-I or SATA-II direct access. * RAID firmware is soft-raid, and is pretty low performance. This is one of the few cards that works on a Dell entry-level workstation/server and also supports port-multipliers.Ĭons: * Only the top port works for booting Linux via port multiplier, and only the first disk (LUN) supported for the boot image. Pros: * Reliable when flashed with non-RAID firmware.