What about PATA->SATA converters? Thane Sherrington wrote: > 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 > >
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