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Peter,
I've used the Adaptec 2400A, not the 1200A. The 2400A easily installed and
mirrored drives under both Red Hat Linux and W2K server. (Linux was loaded
for a few days to play with it.) It has worked flawlessly for about 18
months as a small business file server in an Intel server board. Speed and
throughput have been very good.
I can't say anything about the other choices.
Hope this helps!
Ron Jobe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IDE RAID controller
> Hi again group. I now have an Intel D854PEBT2 motherboard that includes
> SATA hard drive RAID support. What I did not realize is that there are
> no SATA interface drives available yet! Actually, I did not know what
> SATA meant till I bought the drive. For others who may not be familiar
> with the term, it means Serial ATA - this is a new, high speed hard
> drive interface to upgrade the present ribbon cable style.
>
> In any case, I now need to buy a PCI card to do ATA133 RAID. Any
> recommendations? I have found a low cost board based on the Silicon
> Image Sil0860 chip, an Adaptec RAID 1200A, a HighPoint RocketRAID, and a
> Koutech Ultra ATA/133 board.
>
> Any of you use such RAID boards? Suggestions - experiences - are they
> worth it? I have a pair of Western Digital 80G 8MB buffer 7200RPM WD800
> drives that are eager to perform!
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Peter
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