> Many ( most? ) motherboards have it built-in. Stuff 4 x SATA on 2 x > interfaces, and you've got some serious performance potential.
Can you clarify "4 x SATA on 2 x interfaces"? Decent raid cards cost big bucks, rubbish a la promise or highpoint is cheap. All the PATA raid controllers I've seen on mobos are rubbish (highpoint and like). Only *hardware* raid on the card itself counts, Linux can do everything else better. Do you know whether the SATA raid chips commonly found on mobos these days are any better than their PATA counterparts? I find that hard to believe. > Our Canadian friends over at LaCie were looking seriously into it last > time I was throwing large amounts of data around - mid 2003. Haven't > looked into it since, really, due being really poor these days! Doesn't it all in the end boil down to you bus (ie PCI) speed? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
