> > I have two options as I am on a budget > > Buy another western digital 80gb drive (as I have one for storage) to > make a udma 100 raid using a pci raid card. > > Or buy two small 18gb scsi drives and get a scsi raid card (don't know > which scsi raid card exist) > > Or buy a serial ata 150 raid card and two small sata 150 drives. > > Any suggestions on model numbers at all please.
If budget is major consideration I suspect the pci ide raid card will be the cheapest. Maplin (WF84F UltraATA133PCI RAID) seem to offer reasonable prices on their pci cards (UKP20) - although I have found XP pro disk management with a 3rd party IDE raid device to be challenging on occasions. SCSI will cost you more - but (in my experience) is a more stable proposition. Adaptec SCSI Card 29320-R is a good hardware based raid solution - but at circa UKP250 is no bargain. Sorry no experience of serial ata - but would be very interested in others experience... Phil =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
