"ChrisH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:06:09 GMT, "Ron Reaugh"
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"ChrisH" wrote in message
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On 11 Jul 2004 09:02:19 -0700, (Will) wrote:

Huh, it's often the best way to go and there are two RAID 0 options on
the
P4C800-E Dlx: Promise and ICH5R.

Can you use both together? How many drives? Are the drives
interchangeable?

Relevance?

My advice, for what it's worth, is that if you really want to use RAID
then get a decent controller - forget the MB implementation.

There's no significant HW difference between mobo RAID and addon PCI card
firmware RAID. Both work very well.

If the raid card fails you can just replace it.

HUH, and a serial port or a parallel port or USB or firewire or sound HUH!

Also, the BIOS support on the mobbo version is usually a cut-down
version of the full implementaion on the card.

That's false.

So it is with Promise.

No, there's no significant cut-down.

Yes, you can hack the mobbo BIOS but it's not a lot of fun.


RAID 1 is just a lazy way to maintain a continuous backup, using Drive
Image or Ghost onto external media would be an acceptable substitute.

No, RAID 1 does better than that as multitasked reads have near double
the
performance of a single drive.

I think you forgot to add the word 'potentially', in real terms you
get nowhere near double performance.

Wrong, in intense multitasked small record random I/O one gets near exactly
double the throughput.