Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Promise makes a good IDE controller....
I'd still not trust important data to ATA ("IDE") at all, but, if I were
for some reason obliged to use ATA hardware RAID, I'd insist on 3Ware,
since those are the only ones with a halfway-decent track record.
On the other hand, if the motherboard ATA chipset is decent and you need
only two hard drives, then buy a cheap PCI ATA adapter for your CD
drive, and save the cost of hardware RAID.
Oh, by the way, about those round ATA cables that supposedly cure ATA
RAID's airflow-impeding problem: Were you aware that they completely
destroy the alternation of signal and ground cables that is a deliberate
and crucial design feature of ribbon cabling? Typical ATA "engineering".
> ...and you are sure you can get linux to do UDMA 66++ on each drive.
That's a so-called DMA mode that's still processor-intensive. The 66
MB/sec theoretical bus limit is worthwhile, in that it means saturating
the bus during ideal-case reads becomes impossible rather than merely
very unlikely.
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