Andy Taylor wrote:
Anyone got a use for them? I would like to swap them for a PCI IDE RAID controller that’s supported under Linux.
I find that software RAID is at least as good as basic "hardware" RAID (unless you're paying at least three digits for a RAID card you're getting software RAID anyway). I've used a number of RAID configurations over the years and software RAID has caused me the least grief, not to mention that I'm more confident that I should be able to recover the data if the server dies and I have to move the drives to another machine with completely different hardware.
Of-course software RAID isn't an option under Windows so there's still a place for the cheap cards, and if you don't have the spare IDE channels you'll need the card for that (I'd still disable RAID, though, and use software RAID instead).
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