Re: Quick question on controllers

2002-05-31 Thread Andrew Sweger
I personally like the 3ware cards. I've had stability problems with certain cards that promised (*cough*) to do better. I just installed four pair of 3ware's 7850's in four machines and they work great. Plus, if you go with the 7410 and later decide you do want RAID, you're all set to go. Keep in

Quick question on controllers

2002-05-30 Thread Mike Dresser
Hard drive scenario: 4 x 160 Gig Maxtor D540X133's. Not going to be using raid. Using these to store disk images, so speed isn't really an issue, only reliability and stability under 2.4.x Looking at using an MS-6580(intel 845G) motherboard, with a p4/2000 or faster. Here's my options so