I got tired of messing with my scsi controller, enough to make me buy a new board with a ide raid controller built in. What a diffrance, my system runs alot faster with raid levle 0 (srtiping). After i bought my board i discovered that a PCI IDE RAID controller is around $25 and with 2 identical ide drives you can increase the speed of you're pc at least 25%. Just info for you guys looking for more speed. Also I'm use to running at levle 5, with levle 0 it sees 2 drives as one ea.. if you have 2 30 gig drives it sees 60 gig. Have fun!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/BURNOUT.gif

So, what board did you get? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/dunno.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

The ASUS A7V333, an AMD board

cool deal man... RAID kicks butt :bigthumg:



just make sure you back your stuff up if there's anything you want to keep on there... I've got an Adaptec ATA 2400A IDE array controller, it does RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, etc... has up to a 128MB cache and uses the Intel i960 controller.. bad ass IDE array controller...



anyway... I had 4 45GB drives at RAID 5 and was getting stuff set up so that my box would automatically copy the 20GB of mp3's I had ripped myself to my server once a week or so... well... right before I got that set up I had to take off on a last minute business trip... about halfway through the trip I had a bad feeling... wasn't sure what it was.... get home to find the infamous blue screen of death and 2 drives out of my 4 drive RAID 5 array dead https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif



I could've lost 1 drive and still been okay... you lose a drive and you're screwed... have fun with the speed though https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/BURNOUT.gif

IDE raid is cool, drives are cheaper and run cooler. Only bad thing is they are more prone to failure. But for a home system, they rock.

Yeah, what i do is keep another drive just for personal data, on the 2 raid drives is just programs, aplications, the O/S so if one dies none of my personal data is lost, along with cd-r-w back ups once a week. That is alot of porn!!

That is a stacked controller!! I ment just a single chanle with levle 0, 1, 0+1.... there around $25...