Thanks. That's what I'd heard in the past (which is why my desktop system is a Dual 2000+ system, but I wasn't sure whether this was still considered to be true.
I'd say that it is still considered to be true.
Supports all current Athlon MP CPU's, and has a separate 64bit/66Mhz PCI bus, which is a big win. I coupled that with an ICP Vortex SATA raid controller:Right, I was thinking about a 3-ware IDE Raid. I'll have to compare the two.
Well, the one thing you have to be careful of is that a lot of the low end RAID controllers are essentially just hard disk controllers with lots of ports, and they rely on the host to do most of the processing. (Ala software RAID). This is bad. It means that you're sending much more data across the bus, and have increased CPU load. Try and be sure that the board has the bits onboard to run the disks and do the RAID calculations. The ICP card in question, as far as I know, does all it's processing internally.
Also, look into Serial ATA drives - a little more expensive than IDE (but the gap is narrowing fairly rapidly), but hotplug by design and much smaller cables.
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