On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Markus Maurer wrote: > Beside professional SCSI RAID Array's I do not consider IDE Raids with cheap > onboard or PCI controllers or software RAIDS as useful and would not > recommend it to any customer doing serious business and depending on it's > data.
This is a sweeping statement. There are good IDE RAID controllers, they just aren't the software-based ones that come on motherboard chipsets or in cheap Promise cards. 3Ware makes good hardware IDE RAID controllers which you can often pick up for a good price on eBay. They use IDE drives, but have the same basic functionality as many SCSI RAID controllers. alex
