TechwareLabs reviews the Adaptec 6804E RAID card

Adaptec RAID 6805E RAID Controller

Written by: Matt on Apr. 30, 2012

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The topic of RAID has come up again here at TechwareLabs with the recent products sent to us by Adaptec. The first card we will be reviewing is the Adaptec-ASR-6805E card in this review and the Adpatec ASR 6805TQ card which we will post a little later. Along with these two cards we have gotten our hands on four hard drives from Western Digital to have a set of matched hard drives from one manufacturer. In this review we will be comparing the Adaptec Adaptec-ASR-6805E card against the following setups: 1 drive connected directly to your motherboard, 2 drives in a stripe (RAID 0) to the motherboard and again connected to the Adaptec-ASR-6805E RAID card, finally 4 drives in a stripe. We will cover cost, and configuration, to show what kind of performance you can expect in each configuration and why would you want to purchase a RAID card over using the onboard RAID that comes with most motherboards today. So let’s dive right in and give you look at the Adaptec Adaptec-ASR-6805E card first.

Quote from Adaptec:
The 6b/s Series 6E family of entry-level Unified Serial® (SATA/SAS) RAID controllers deliver affordable, true Hardware RAID that outperforms software-based HBAs and SATA controllers.

8 internal port, low-profile MD2 with SAS 2.0 and Gen 2 PCI-Express (PCIe) x4Unified Serial RAID controller with On-Board DRAM and Intelligent Power Management delivers the ideal price/performance and connectivity solution for entry-level server platforms, workstations and desktop systems