On Monday 02 August 2004 13:48, Louis Richards wrote:
Many of the Highpoint and Promise cards are simply IDE cards with the RAID being done in the driver. In other words, these are really software RAID. If you are going to be doing software RAID anyway, you should use the more mature md that came with your system.
I would buy two additional IDE cards so each drive is by itself on a channel. I always mirror boot and swap. The rest can be RAID 5.
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? My current motherboard uses 4 IDE ports, so I guess with 2 IDE cards I should be able to create a decent setup. Perhaps I should consider investing a bit in S-ATA to keep the cable problem under control? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff