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Skriven 2010-08-27 14:39:11 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 61911 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: raid 0 in xp, anyone?
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 ml> of course, it should also be pointed out that software RAID
 ml> solutions are not as good as the hardware ones... this day in
 ml> time, one must also watch out for cheap RAID controller
 ml> solutions as many of them require software for the actual
 ml> work... these are akin to winmodems... a true hardware RAID
 ml> solution does all the setup and management via the card's BIOS
 ml>  interface... the KEY method of knowing if an array is
 ml> software or hardware driven is that a true hardware driven
 ml> array is completely transparent to the OS which simply sees
 ml> one large drive.

 AA> Hey )\/(ark,   what do you recommend as good RAID controllers? 

in the day, we regularly used Adaptec cards for our *SCSI* RAID setups... there
was another that we used several times but i cannot think of its name or
manufacturer :(

i don't know what is being used for today's SATA setups and it has been a while
since i did a SCSI RAID configuration... of the several dozen that i have done,
only two or three needed to have a drive replaced in them...

 AA> I was looking at TigerDirect and it's not clear if the 3 cards they
 AA> offer have their own bios and cpu.

yeah, that's part of the problem... one way to tell might be to see if they
require a specific OS kinda the same way we look at modems and printers to see
if they require a specific OS...

three at tiger direct, you say? what are your search terms on their site? i
googled for "tigerdirect RAID controller card" (without the quotes) and clicked
on the tigerdirect link which takes me to their RAID Controllers page with
seven RAID controllers listed...

are you looking for SCSI or SATA or something else? what type of drives are you
planning to RAID together?


[EDIT] OOPS! now i see what you are saying... yeah, there's only three at
tigerdirect that the average SOHO would consider... all three are under
$50US... i didn't even notice the prices until looking at the details and
wondering why card X does so much more than card Y... then the $500+US and the
$1000+US price tags hit me... i don't think we ever charged more than $150US or
$200US for the SCSI cards we used and sold... then again, that was ummm... 10
years ago at least...

sadly, i really don't have any recommendations at this time :? :(

)\/(ark

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