Spend more and get the 1078
07/25/2011
This review is from: ASUS PIKE 1068E Flexible storage options for end users
Pros:
Cheap, and gives access to all 8 of the SAS/SATA ports to which i hooked up 4x 15,000 drives with 29 pin SAS to 2 SATA plugs.
Cons:
I went through 3 trying to get them to be able to create/read an array of drives without any luck Sometimes it would read a couple drives, next time it would read different drives, never was i able to consistently use these SAS hard drives and the only way i could use the system was by utilizing the standard SATA ports and a RAID configuration with that controller.
Overall Review:
Save yourself the time and hassle, spend a little more and get the hardware LSI Raid chip in the 1078, you will get much better performance. If you somehow make this 1068 work, congrats!
(I tried each one on 2 separate Asus Z8PE-D12 boards, all of the 15,000 RPM drives i used work perfectly fine now)
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- Justin G.
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