On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective.
You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and suffered from really bad performance with the on-board Ultra66 controller. I installed a PCI controller (Promise Ultra 66) and put every drive on its own channel. Things are much happier now and about 3x faster. The best part is that the card only costs about $25. You might be better off getting a more reliable motherboard, such as an ASUS CUSL2 (for Intel) or ASUS A7V133 (For AMD) and putting PCI controllers in. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] Money can't buy love. But it CAN rent a very close imitation.