I've never setup a IDE RAID before, I cannot tell the performance, but from
all the reviews I've read, there is no real performance lead (because the
IDE limit, computer still cannot access more than one IDE device at a time).
The only advantage you can take is that you can have upto 4 IDE drives act
like one big drive.  If you really want to speed, SCSI is the only way to
go.

RAID can be either software or hardware, eg NT and win2k can set software
RAID 0,1 or 5. If you use a RAID card, it will be hardware RAID controlled
by the card.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Cranny" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:57 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] RAID 0?


Hello all,

    I purchased an IBM Deskstar 75GXP yesterday, 30.7GB, and am considering
getting another one to setup an Ultra ATA100 RAID 0 array.  Not knowing a
great deal about RAID arrays and never having set one up before, I'm looking
for a little input form the list.  I know 0 is the one I want (I'm a speed
freak), but I wondering about things such as compatability betweend the
Desktars and a Promise ATA100 controller, and whether the array will be
hardware or software controlled

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