Thinking of adding a second Cheetah 15K drive in RAID 0 on an XP Pro installation. I have an accout at Dell, so I'll probably purchase there since I can spread out my payments. They have the Cheetah 15k at a reasonable price, but the only SCSI controller I see is a "PERC3-DI RAID Controller Enabler Kit for Dell PowerEdge 2500", which supports RAID 0/1/5.
Product specs state that it is 160MB transfer, but I believe my drive is Ultra320. Are these numbers which I should be concerned about. The 160 means Ultra160, right? Should I look for a SCSI 320 controller - is there such a thing, or will it not really matter? My current controller is an LSI (160, I believe), but not a RAID card.
Does this sound like the controller I need? I just want to run in RAID 0 for speed. Also, I'm doing a lot of gaming lately. Would setting up a RAID 0 with Cheetah 15ks be good for this purpose, or problematic?
I've never set up a RAID situation so I don't know anything about it, and would appreciate any insight you might be able to give me.
Thanks!
Product specs state that it is 160MB transfer, but I believe my drive is Ultra320. Are these numbers which I should be concerned about. The 160 means Ultra160, right? Should I look for a SCSI 320 controller - is there such a thing, or will it not really matter? My current controller is an LSI (160, I believe), but not a RAID card.
Does this sound like the controller I need? I just want to run in RAID 0 for speed. Also, I'm doing a lot of gaming lately. Would setting up a RAID 0 with Cheetah 15ks be good for this purpose, or problematic?
I've never set up a RAID situation so I don't know anything about it, and would appreciate any insight you might be able to give me.
Thanks!