Chinese M1015 RAID Controllers: Any good or beware?

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Churchill

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I'm in the market for a pair of M1015 RAID cards for work. We are building out our backup servers and need a few controllers for disk storage.

That being said I can get a Chinese shipped M1015 for $75 on ebay but I'm quite leery about them as I've heard stories about them not working just like the old ones that used to be server pulls.

Is this a problem I should be worried about or just buy a 3rd just in case? Any recommendation on a sub $100 SATA/SAS RAID card that will do RAID-2 disks RAID 6-6 disks?
 

pricklypunter

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Stick to genuine branded cards, IBM, Dell etc if you don't want a sore head further down the road. Some of the guys here have been posting up good cards for sale in the trade forums, so get a wanted ad up and I'm sure someone will be able to help, also keep an eye on ebay, there's some good deals there too quite often :)