IDE RAID 5

[gregulator]

Well I am thinking i am not going to get into scsi because i simply cannot afford it. However, I think I could possible afford to get a better IDE RAID solution, namely a card with RAID 5 support. I am wondering what my options are or if anyone had experience with any of these cards. I have seen option from Promise and Adaptec. I think I have eliminated the adaptec because it is only ATA-66 and I think the promise has 6 channels so I think with 75GXP's I could easily max out the burst capabilities. Thanks for any help.

 

[KidViciou$]

i dont know of any ide cards that can do raid 5, let me know if you find one

 

[PCResources]

Well, the Adaptec is a Hardware RAID controller, the Promise is software, so go for the Adaptec, SW RAID solutions are using the CPU power for the RAID subsystem, and IDE is already using CPU power.

So if you REALLY need IDE RAID the Adaptec is your only HW based choice. Me, i would rather get a single good SCSI disk and a good controller.

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resources

 

[gregulator]

No, I think the promise one is hardware... the supertrak anyway. check it out here.

 

[RGN]

um, the SuperFasttrak is $400... ouch! SCSI is more acctractive at that price...

 

[Muadib]

SCSI is more acctractive at that price...
Not if you factor in the cost of SCSI drives.

 

[jsbush]

That is one HUGE card.

 

[Windogg]

Don't know about the Promise but the Adaptec AAA-UDMA is based on the Intel i960 which is usuall seen on the big boy SCSI RAID card also from Adaptec and Mylex. The i960 is great and most cards take standard DIMMs for memory. Don't expect equal performance though. I have yet to see the SuperFastTrak but I have seen the AAA-UDMA on the market. The Promise card look like one bid mofo meant for full size server cases. Didn;t read the specs but it might need a 64bit PCi slot.

Windogg

 

[Buddha Bart]

I can't remember the site but I saw a review of the adaptec hardware ide raid card a week or two back. Apparently its just a hack job worthy of the 820+MTH=SDRAM calibre. The performance figures were garbage and the auther said the company mentioned how its really a scsi controller with some sort of interpretation for IDE.

*shrug* thats all I can recall

bart