Please forgive me if this is in the wrong thread.
I work for a large, privately owned funeral home and I've finally convinced our owned to upgrade the entire computer system.
To attempt to get the most bang for our buck I'm building all of our workstations and our server in collaboration with a "computer guy" who is a friend of my boss.
We're planning a RAID 10 configuration (I've never set up anything beyond 0) on the server for shared data and a seperate, non-RAID HD for the OS.
The "Computer Guy" is recommending
this motherboard which only has 4 SATA hookups instead of the 6 we need. According to the documentation, it supports RAID 10 on the board. However, he wants to use
this add-on RAID controller with 256 MB dedicated cache memory. I guess my question is... Will using the add-on RAID controller provide a significant boost in performance over just finding another motherboard that supports RAID 10 on the board and has the number of SATA connections we need?
In case its necessary.. we'll be putting in 4 GBs of RAM and using a Q6700 for the processor.