At 10:16 AM 14/12/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Thane Sherrington wrote:
I have a customer who wants to RAID 1 setup on two PATA disks. The
only controller I have found that will do this anymore is the
TX2000. Does anyone have any experience with it? Is it a good
product, or should they move to SATA with a SATA RAID controller?
Good controller or not, they really should move to SATA at this
point. The only reason I would deploy a PATA raid is if it were for
a legacy system where they already have dozens of drives they want
to reuse, etc. The cost savings isn't enough to make it the right choice IMO.
You're probably right, but this is an older machine that already has
two 200GB hard drives, and money (as always is an issue.) I can put
in this card for $155, or I can put in an 4310 card for $213.40 plus
two 250GB SATAs for $234. I was going to offer that as an option,
but I'm expecting this guy to say it's too much more. There is an
Adaptec SATA RAID card that's about $100, so that might be an option, I guess.
T
