Since I would be putting this card in a G3B&W400 that will be running OS 10.2 Server I was wondering if there are any obvious disadvantages to buying one of the cards that has hardware RAID capabilities. If I am going to buy a PCI card, and two drives, for a little more money I could get RAID too. Anyone using a RAID set up in their system?
Other than a small price difference, the Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA/133 and ACARD AHArd Ultra ATA/133 RAID cards seem to be pretty similar. The SIIG Ultra ATA/133 card seems to only support RAID 0, and there is no mention of being able to boot from the attached drives with the SIIG. Anyone have any strong opinions one way or the other on any of these cards?
I would probably be looking at something like two 40GB hard drives. I will not be doing web hosting or video work. The server would host the Point of Sales software and a rather large database of my inventory.
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As a slightly off-topic reply to Glenn's comment about business software for Macs. There are actually quite a few very good programs out there, many written exclusively for Macs, and a growing assortment that work in OS 10.2
USB has vastly improved the choices of Mac compatible hardware for retailers like me. But, a lot of the cash register hardware is still adapted (adaptered) from the windows world. I had to "add on" five other pieces of oddball hardware. Strangely enough one is a serial printer. And, yes, it does print in OS 10.2 because someone wrote a driver for it. I am using a Star Micronics receipt printer that is Windows serial, adaptered to Mac serial, and it prints just fine in OS 10.2. It will also work with a Keyspan serial to USB adapter.
Nancy
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