Here is the thing, you get what you pay for. On motherboard raid is crap, don't even bother unless your just going for raid 1, even then, the performance on that drive will be HALF what it was before. You really do want one of the expensive adaptec ata raid controller cards, and stick as much cache on the card as you can afford. At that point, may as well pick up a 3rd disc and run raid 5. Redundancy and speed!
> Okay, after reading all the responses to William when he was setting one up > (very informative thread that), I realize all I want is RAID 1 -- a mirror > drive to my photo hard drive. > > So I bumped over to Fry's the other day (local big computer store, warehouse > style, chain) and asked a clerk "Where are the RAID cards?" He pointed me to > a section and they just looked like SATA cards. Only one mentioned RAID and > it was very expensive. > > Confoosed, I thought there must be more to it than that, so I figured I > needed to do more research. > > I could google it, OTOH, I might get a much faster answer/understanding here. > > Looking for a cheap way to set up a mirror drive, that is all I really need > or want. > > SATA card, hard drive and case? What does RAID, software? > > TIA, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
