It's been a while since I played with SCSI. Moreso in the age where SAS and
SATA is the buzzword, it was odd that I landed myself with 3 units of 300GB
10k.7 Cheetah hardrives. Thought I plunge into the world of SCSI again and
give it a try. Here are my questions;

1. What's a good RAID card that does 0, 1, 5? Preferably dual channel since
I also got an external Ultrium tape drive and has drivers for XP .

2. Should I go U320 RAID cards since the drives are U320 or U160 RAID cards
since they are much cheaper to get?

3. Most good cards are in PCI-X flavour. Would I see a performance dump if I
set RAID 0 with those 3 drives if I put the PCI-X card in a normal PCI
2.2slot? I believe the PCI slot in my mobo (P5K-E running Q6600 at
3.6GHz) is capable of 533MB/s.

Appreciated if I can get any thoughts and feedback. Thanks.


Jason

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