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To be truthful, I was thinking of removing all 4 disks and putting in 4 new ones as Raid 1. &nbsp;One pair for OS and 1 pair for data, so the only thing I need to know is what raid card to install?
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To be truthful, I was thinking of removing all 4 disks and putting in 4 new ones as Raid 1.  One pair for OS and 1 pair for data, so the only thing I need to know is what raid card to install?

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I have a Dell T605 PowerEdge server running SBS 2011 which came as standard with a Dell SAS6/IR Raid Controller card.<br />
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The server originally came with SBS 2003 but we upgraded to 2011 last year with minimal problems apart from the SAS6/IR card which Windows device manager has always had a problem with and couldn't get an appropriate driver that it was happy with.<br />
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That said the server has been running happily with 2 x 150GB OS drives raid 1 and 2 x 1.5TB data drives raid 1.<br />
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One of the data drives is now registering a fault so we are looking to replace them with new drives and as part of the upgrade we want to replace the SAS6/IR card with a newer model which is compatible with the existing hardware.<br />
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My question is what make and model of raid 1 card or better would you recommend?
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I have a Dell T605 PowerEdge server running SBS 2011 which came as standard with a Dell SAS6/IR Raid Controller card.

The server originally came with SBS 2003 but we upgraded to 2011 last year with minimal problems apart from the SAS6/IR card which Windows device manager has always had a problem with and couldn't get an appropriate driver that it was happy with.

That said the server has been running happily with 2 x 150GB OS drives raid 1 and 2 x 1.5TB data drives raid 1.

One of the data drives is now registering a fault so we are looking to replace them with new drives and as part of the upgrade we want to replace the SAS6/IR card with a newer model which is compatible with the existing hardware.

My question is what make and model of raid 1 card or better would you recommend?

Dell T605 SAS6/IR Raid Controller replacement card

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