UDMA/66 IDE PCI RAID Card for 20 bucks

[leonowski]

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIDERAID66

Brand new.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Only supports RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1.. but not bad for the price I suppose.. too bad not RAID 5

 

[hojl]

where can I find out what all these raid means?

 

[ChrisIsBored]

try this link here

 

[CarpeDeo]

Whoa- never knew there were so many RAID types.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I think it's missing a few.. I've heard a rumor about there being a RAID 60 as well.. mmm.. imagine how much a controller like that would cost... a years salary for most.

 

[ddiccico]

chrisisbored;
I think IDE cards don't do RAID 5 because striping more than 1 drive per ide channel doesn't offer any performance increase, and you need 4 or 5 drives for RAID 5.

 

[CichliSuite]

Just use the Office Depot $15 of $50 and get a Maxtor (promise rebadge) Ultra ata100 for $35.

 

[Jdog]

why spend $15 more for a very similar product? This card is higpoint based, and with the newest drivers provides excellent performance. I guess if you have to have ATA100 (for the small difference it makes) then I guess the maxtor is the way to go, but otherwise...

 

[Purvin]

i have seen them for 10-14bucks.

 

[aGeNt73]

hey good find! maybe i'll pick one up cuz i want ata 66 on my old machine and maybe raid.

 

[mrVW]

Purvin: on a hot deals board, why mention you have seen the cheaper and NOT mention details?

 

[twisted]

Purvin >> i have seen them for 10-14bucks.

Zatright? Please mention some names. Compugeeks now has them listed at $12.95. Maybe that's where you saw it.

 

[AmdEmAll]

I heard that Highpoint controllers are terrible. My parents have a Abit BE-6 with high point and it has nothing but problems.

 

[phamtastik]

Highpoint works... but it just takes alot of tweaking. I had to play around w/ mine for about a week or so and now it's rock stable!

I have the Abit-KA7 raid.

 

[tigereye]

Cichli, aren't we talking about 2 different things here, though? Isn't the Maxtor just an ATA 100 controller card? This card at Comp geeks is a RAID controller. The Maxtor doesn't do RAID, does it? Or, can it be hacked to RAID?

 

[potatoBBQ]

The Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card doesn't do RAID...
I checked the Maxtor web site and no mention of RAID.

 

[potatoBBQ]

I heard the HighPoint HPT366 (which is the chip Iwill uses on this card) has problems with IBM 75GXPs... anyone have any experience with this?