Best add-on part for my raid 5 server?

  1. The 9361-8i was nice 10 years ago as a hardware RAID controller (still have one lying around), software RAID on a modern CPU will outperform it significantly.

  2. Read this:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/short-review-edging-asmedia-1166-pcie-gen3-x2-to-6-x-sata-hba-chipset-it-doesnt-suck/

  1. “RAID5” is not a specific statement, do you want to use hardware or software RAID? In the non-Windows world there is practically no reason to use hardware RAID in the present.
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