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Iwill PCI Raid card PLUS 2 80-pin ultra66 IDE cables $17 new in box

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Kwad Guy

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Compgeeks.com has the Iwill "Side Raid66"
PCI IDE raid card (ultra 66) for $17 new in the
retail box. This includes the card and TWO
ultra 66 (also ultra 100) 80-pin IDE cables. The cables
themselves are worth at least $10. You chance
to try IDE raid for almost nothing...A better deal than
even the Promise ultra66 mod!

And this one may actually work without major headaches
in Windows 2000 (anyone know for sure) or with Maxtor
drives (again, anyone know for sure).

Here's the link.

Kwad
 
This may look like a great buy but be careful!! The controller on this card (Highpoint HP368) is the predecessor to the controller on the Abit K7T Raid MoBo (Highpoint HP370). There are some issues with certain manufacturer's hard drives (compatibility) and generally for overall performance. This forum, as well as others, have documented many of these issues with the Highpoint chips. Raid controllers based on Promise's controller chips are known to be far superior to those based on Highpoints.
 
I know nothing about RAID stuff. It looks as if you need 2 ATA66 drives to make this work. Is that true? I have an existing 8.4 Gig drive that is 33 and a new 30 Gig Quantum 66. Can I RAID these with this card?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
This topic should be on the other forum, but to satisfy your needs and whoever else needs it:

If you plan on just doing one or the other (RAID 1, 0) then you'll need only 2 drives. A similar configuration would be ideal. If you use the same drives you have now then it will go in favor of the lower denominator - your 8.4/33. Yes, you will end up wasting your otherwise excellent 30/66 as it will only utilize 8.4gb on it.

Raid 0 is Striping: Data is read and written to both drives at the same time. (fast)
Raid 1 is Mirroring: Basically a way for one drive to keep an exact mirror of the other. (redundancy)
0+1 is both combined (you'll need 4 drives minimum for it to work)

🙂
 
Kwad, thanks for the deal!

Seso, thanks for the review!

Unfortunately, OpenBSD does not appear to have drivers for these cards, or I'd snap up a couple in a heartbeat...
 
I've had this card for awhile now, bought it back when it was about $35, and have had no problem with it. Works great since I have 2 WD 20.5 7200rpm 66 drives. They are in Raid 0 config and it is FAST! Anyhow for 17 bucks this is a great buy and I would have bought it had I not already bought one 🙁
 
If you're in the market for IDE RAID consider the 3ware boards. They offer 2, 4, and 8 port boards that feature an individual channel for each drive (no master/slave, all master), etc... Cost more though - 2 port board was $109 - $140 last time I looked. We have a 4 port board here at work and it hums along nicely...

The Escalade 6800 series supports hotswap and all that too...

3ware.com

EDIT: forgot to mention #1 reason to check out 3ware is that all the RAID stuff is in the hardware, not in drivers/user space software.
 
whoa that is a good deal, i mean the Promise hack was nice but heck you don't even need to hack these, they're already RAID!! I think i paid $25 for the Promise card, cables and shipping, then I found half those hacks didn't work and spent 4 hours figuring out which hack did work.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd so buy one of these Iwill RAID cards.
 
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