On lørdag 10 september 2005, 23:02, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > >The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e. > > fakeraid. > > How "old" is your PC?
Pretty exactly 4 years old. It has the last generation of Athlon T-Bird CPUs. > On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onboard VIA > (fakeraid) plus a PCI Sil 3112a card. Raid-5 over four SATA discs > give me in excess of 50MB/s sustained write, depending on what I'm > copying, with a system load of about 2.00. That's pretty neat. > >The second option is a 3ware 8006-2PL, > > You can't go wrong. Cool! :-) > >The third option is to buy a SATA non-RAID controller and run SW > > RAID entirely based on that. > > I'm not sure if you even get that. I've never seen a SATA controller > that didn't have Raid. I think they exist. This, for example: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=ASH-1205SA > But then, if you think about it, it's all fake > raid, so all of them are non-raid. Yup. I found that even those cheapest SATA controllers that were advertized as non-RAID had a SiL3112. Grok it those who can. > http://cgi.ebay.com/3ware-8006-2LP-64-bit-PCI-SATA_W0QQitemZ523855901 >7QQcategoryZ39968QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > If your data is worth $45 to you, then this will see you through. OK, cool! Thanks a lot for all the advices, now I know a lot more about my options. Still have to count my pennies, though, and figure out what I really want. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
