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PCI RAID card or onboard RAID controller

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Cageman

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I'm a newbie.
I need some help to configure my HDDs.
I have two WD 120GB IDE HDDs. I started thinking about RAID0, but my MOBO (P4S533) doesn't support RAID.
So, I need to get PCI RAID controller to cofigure RAID.
And I also found IDE/SATA converters, so I'm also interested in IDE/SATA converters and getting a SATA RAID controller (or MOBO). Which way is better to get a PCI RAID controller or get a new MOBO supporting RAID0 (or SATA) (in terms of performance)?
How about IDE/SATA converter?

Any experiences? or opinion?
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.



 
I bought an Intel board with onboard Silicon Logic SATA RAID, and the drivers were absolute garbage. The system was so unstable I was forced to use the onboard IDE until I could get an IDE RAID card.

Here are some advantages to PCI RAID:
- Generally better platform support (Promise has excellent Linux drivers)
- You can take it with you on a new system
- If your motherboard fails, you might not be able to retrieve your data until you get a similar RAID card/mothboard. With a PCI card, it's easy to replace (or if your mainboard dies, easy to transfer to another system).

I've gotten screwed by drivers and motherboard failures with onboard RAID too many times. Promise PCI RAID is the only way to go now for IDE. I've also tried an Iwill IDE RAID card. It had decent Windows drivers, but no linux on the model I tried.

Just my experience. YMMV.
 
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