However, the 3ware cards, unless 3ware has introduced a cheap version
(I've not heard of it) are true real hardware raid. I've got one in
my pvr right now, it's an older 2 port model that isn't anywhere near
as fast as it's more modern cousins, but it's true full hardware
RAID, and only cost me about $25. I highly recommend the 3ware cards
if you want to use RAID and IDE in the same sentence successfully. The card I've got achieves about 95%+ of 2X the data rate of a single
port with two drives attached to it, all handled onboard the card. With the Promise and Iwill controllers, I never actually say more
than about a 50% speedup compared to one drive from running dual
drive RAID. Plus, the 3ware cards have Linux drivers in the kernel
source, and you can also download Linux drivers off of 3ware's
website.
Looking at their line of SATA cards, I would agree. They appear to be cost competitive with the ICP cards as well (ICP is a little more expensive, also harder to find). Plus, the 3ware cards have 8 and 12 drive models too.
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