Not really - a PCI Promise IDE controller is about $100. And it will work at ATA-100 speeds even on older machines. I have one in a celeron 433 that would only otherwise do ATA-33.
Hardware IDE raid cards on the other hand.... Are expensive. -----Original Message----- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2005 9:49 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RAID 1 question > at the same time reports 13 MB/s. I suspect that putting one of the > drives on the secondary IDE will result in better overall performance, > but I'm not sure. Forget about software raid any number unless all disks have their very own IDE cable. The 5 bucks for a cable is definitely a worthwhile expense. The tricky bit starts when you run out of mobo plugs to put the cables into, IDE PCI cards are relatively expensive and can be a bit of a nuisance in less than recent mobos. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
