I have 10 hitachi drives that have all been fine. Most of the hitachis are 1 and 2TB versions in my vmserver. The only drives I have had fail on me as of late are the Samsung drives (400GB). I also have several maxtor, seagate and western digital that all seem fine as well (most of these drives...
I may have underestimated the costs of RAID controllers. I thought I could pick them up for cheaper. I'm working on building a vmware ESXi server so I can virtualize all of my personal servers.
Here is what I have so far:
Case: Norco 4020 -- $319...
I have been looking for a decent 16-port RAID controller that doesn't cost $600 - 1000. Is there one out there?
I need it to support:
16 internal SATA drives
RAID 0/1/5/6
Hot Swap
vmware ESXi
ubuntu
microsoft windows 2008 server
Another controller I'm looking for:
Minimum 5 SATA...