ryandlugosz
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Here's a question that came up the other day on a small technical listserv....
If someone is looking for RAID 0 (or even RAID 1), and they've got ATA100 controllers already on their mobo, should they buy a seperate IDE RAID card?
I know cards like the FastTrak are actually software based so is it really that much of a difference to justify the $70? Seems like their software is probably only a little more optimized than "Windows Raid". I do see the benefit in that the FastTrak has a buffer on it that most mobo IDE controllers lack. It does have a buffer, right?
Anyway, I haven't found the answer to this question in any of the IDE RAID reviews that I've read, including Anand's. It's an important question that could save some people some money.
I'd like to see how it (windows raid) stacks up against a true hardware IDE card (not the FastTrak) as well.... It seems like the bottleneck isn't going to be in the slight additional processing that the CPU has to do.
Maybe this would be a good addendum review for Anand to throw on the end of his IDE RAID review!
-Ryan
If someone is looking for RAID 0 (or even RAID 1), and they've got ATA100 controllers already on their mobo, should they buy a seperate IDE RAID card?
I know cards like the FastTrak are actually software based so is it really that much of a difference to justify the $70? Seems like their software is probably only a little more optimized than "Windows Raid". I do see the benefit in that the FastTrak has a buffer on it that most mobo IDE controllers lack. It does have a buffer, right?
Anyway, I haven't found the answer to this question in any of the IDE RAID reviews that I've read, including Anand's. It's an important question that could save some people some money.
I'd like to see how it (windows raid) stacks up against a true hardware IDE card (not the FastTrak) as well.... It seems like the bottleneck isn't going to be in the slight additional processing that the CPU has to do.
Maybe this would be a good addendum review for Anand to throw on the end of his IDE RAID review!
-Ryan
