On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:32:20 -0000, William Sommerwerck wrote:

If you're going for raid, buy a raid controller card, and look at
the performance (tom's hardware etc) of each. There is a vast
difference in performance between them, and onboard controllers
really suck. In fact all the ones I've used don't show much speed
increase over a single drive!

I was looking at an Adaptec card the other, and was appalled at the $350
price tag.

I'm buying an Areca controller (PCI express 8x, takes 4 SATA drives, 256MB cache/buffer). It's $500. But its performace (on graphs at Tom's Hardware) is astronomical.

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