Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
Won't the PCI become a bottleneck? Would it be wise to get an on-board Gb connection, or would that still use the PCI bus?
I'm running an ATA133 Raid Card on PCI. Hardware RAID, so you only need to manage it from software - i.e. monitor it's status. Links 4 120Mb IDE's in striped/mirror, and you do see a speed improvement since only half the data has to come from a pair of drives. I run it as the 'data' drive, and have a separate pair of IDE's on the motherboard ports for boot and share partitions. ( DVD writer is on another machine so these drives have their own cables ) All works very well and not very expensive. 320GBP including the hot swap cradles. ( but I must get a spare disk some time just in case ;) ) Only problem - one of the disks had been used prior to going into the stack, and that caused a problem until it was wiped clean. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services