>> >> 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
In Windows 2000 you can create striped volumes without any extra hardware or software using Disk Management, I expect you can in XP as well. I can't say I've ever tried it but it would be cheap. Best Regards, William Chitham =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
