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Need new RAID controller today

meester
meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
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Any ideas where I could get hold of one today?

PC World don't seem to sell them.

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  • TonyLisaP
    TonyLisaP Posts: 505 Forumite
    Maplin maybe?
  • bat999
    bat999 Posts: 1,951 Forumite
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    Hi
    Yes they do sell them at Maplin, but they're not cheap.
    I priced them when I needed one, but got exactly the same thing new from ebay for £5.
    Here's the Maplin link, £24.99 :-http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=32106&criteria=raid&doy=20m4
    Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
  • meester
    meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    TonyLisaP wrote: »
    Maplin maybe?

    I was going to get an Adaptec 1420SA on Monday, but looks like Maplin have something matching my requirements (four channels, RAID1, JBOD):

    http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=32106&criteria=raid&doy=20m4

    Any ideas what manufacturer this card is?
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    Avlab
    It's hidden in the FAQs.
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  • totalsolutions
    totalsolutions Posts: 3,110 Forumite
    Where are you that would help...?computer fair near you? www.britishcomputerfairs.com
  • meester
    meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    I'm in Surrey.

    Just realised the Maplin one is no use - I need SATA.

    They do have a SATA card, but I need to connect four drives and their card only takes two.
  • meester
    meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    oh well, current RAID card has booted up now, I think it's on its last legs though, so have ordered new card (occasional clicking noises and freezing, hard drive failures on hard drives that have alredy been replaced, etc.), which will arrive Tuesday.
  • totalsolutions
    totalsolutions Posts: 3,110 Forumite
    Hi, I'm in Surrey too, Well I hope the Raid card is identical, I 'think' they are critical to the disc array they build, ie it my not see the drives and reformat so be careful and read up on the instructions.
  • meester
    meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    well I got my RAID card (today!).

    Accidentally ordered the wrong one, went for pci-x rather than pci-express. This means I am limited to 133mb/sec. I don't think this is actually a problem though.

    More notably, however, it turns out the problem was just a faulty SATA cable. The new raid card won't boot with the dodgy one - better error checking I guess. I have thrown it in the bin, and everything works fine (of course I only have 3 of my 4 hard drives). This explains my mysterious repeated hard drive failures.

    So I guess I should send the card back.
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