$59 RAID support for up to 16 IDE drives!

Holy peeperdepeep... that is cheap! Too bad I just have my new RAID-controller and I don't need a replacement unless it would give a huge performance increase if you use this card instead of a HPT370 chip with a 2 drive RAID 0 array.

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Well, I think 4 drives in RAID 0 would be faster, and 8 drives faster still...And then there's your 0+1 options, imagine two 8-drive clusters, with all the masters being the first RAID 0 and all the slaves being redundant!

Or how about a nice RAID 5 array?

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If someone gives me some HDs for free... I just got 2 new ones because the old ones where full.

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Holi smok, are you gonna open yer Barns&Noble store or something, why would any body need 2+ TB of HD space?

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Heck, my server was feeding 3TB/mo to other users last year. Since then that school has taken ever craftier measures to restrict serving without resticting other high-bandwidth uses. I could use about a TB just for storing all my movies!

But if you use, say, 16 250MB drives, you could support 4TB.

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hehe, I am a little dumb probably, caz I am mixing "feeding" and "storing" words in my brain all the time, or just am confused...

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The cards probably cheap because the PSU needed to power all the drives isn't  

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Excuse my insolence when I ask if a PCI slot can handle that much data, it doesn't look like PCI 64bit...

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Hehe, no, you're limitted to 133MB/s. But with most modern drives only transfering around 45MB/s continuously, and many of the cheaper drives only transfering around 38MB/s continuously, you could do up to 4 drives in RAID 0 without comprimising performance noticeably. As for using more drives, that might not increase performance but would definately increase storage space. So it's an ideal solution if you need a lot of space and don't expect more than 133MB/s transfer rate.

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