Raid Card Compatibility
Hey,
I'm building my first hackintosh server. I'm wanting to do an 8-12 drive raid card and I saw that you had one in your server. I'm looking also at an areca 1222(or 12 drive version in the same family) for mine. I wanted to know how hard it was to setup and if I have to use special mounting assistants or kexts to make it work.
I'm wanting to do a RAID 6 array of WD Red 3TB drives, and I know the Areca 1222 has that ability, so they are naturally attractive, and I've heard they have compatibility with OSX, but I don't know if it's only certain versions of OSX that it works with. I am wanting to do Mavericks Server Edition on my server. I am also planning on having a 4 disk RAID 0 boot drive that would be configured by OSX. I've done it on a mac mini with 2 drives and I love the speed.
I have the following planned, but I have only bought the case and PSU:
-Storm Stryker case
-4770K Processor
-Corsair H100i liquid cooler
-Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H
-Kingston Beast 16GB 2400MHz RAM(2x 8GB)
-GTX 660 Graphics Card
-Areca 1222 RAID Card with battery
-8-12x WD Red 3TB Drives in RAID 6
-4 OCZ 128GB Vector Drives in RAID 0
-Cooler Master V850 PSU
-A few Extra Case fans, too
I don't know if that helps to know, but there it is. Any help or advice any of you could give would be really appreciated.