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05-08-2003, 11:04 AM
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| fingerbangin' your cat Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bham - West Mids
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| reccomend a raid controller card? looking to set up 4 x 40GB Maxtor fireball 3's striped in my system - can anyone reccomend a decent raid pci card that reasonably priced .... i seem to find cards for either £250 or £20 - anyone have any recomendations ... any advice much appreciated ps. motherboard is an asus a7n8x dlx if that is of any relevance tar d |
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05-08-2003, 11:38 AM
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| Highpoint 4 channel card  Highpoint Rocket Raid 404 4Ch ATA133 Raid Host Adaptor £78.14 inc. VAT (scan.co.uk). I wouldn't recommend going for a 2 channel card as they will simply cane your performance. I used to have one of these onboard my EPoX 8K5A3+.. and striped 4 x WD SE 8MB cache drives. They are awesome and cheap 4 drives is pretty excessive though  talk about maxing out the PCI bus! "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" |
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05-08-2003, 11:49 AM
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| so do you think 4 drives would offer still a signifiicant performance increase ... its just i have 4 laying around at work and need some extra storage - thought raid would be the obvious solution but maybe i should just get a card to add more ide ports ur thoughts |
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05-08-2003, 12:14 PM
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| The performance difference between 2 and 4 isn't big. The PCI limits the possiblities quite considerably. 2 in a RAID-0 would be a better bet. Infact, you wanted some safety as well, you could raid 0+1. 2 drives as drive C: 2 more drives mirroring that virtual C: drive. Security and speed. There are obvious CPU load overheads with this but if you have a fast system, they are minimal. I've been running this setup for a while and my JB's do nearly 100mb in ATTO benchmarks (16k stripe/16k cluster) Adding additional IDE ports is the other option. It depends on how much space you need and what you want to do with the system. RAID is a nice option but IDE raid is a little overblown in just what it can actually do. It's not _that_ much faster unless you use it in the right places with the applications (scratch file for photoshop, temp files....) "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" |
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05-08-2003, 03:33 PM
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| Eh... Hold on. The RocketRAID 4 channel S-ATA controller has 2 internal and 2 external channels... So how are you going to use all 4 channels if you're only internal devices? www.spikegifted.net | BOINC SETI@Home stats | BOINC CPDN stats | eBay.co.uk feedback So you want to know something about SMP? Try here... Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly. - Batman costume warning label (Rolfe, John & Troob, Peter, Monkey Business (Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle), 2000)  |
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