SIIG Raid controller

[linuxman111]

Anyone have any experience with this RAID controller for RAID 0. Does it do hardware Raid or just software?

Thanks.

[PCKing]

I always thought that a RAID controller is hardware???? Maybe Im wrong :blink:

[linuxman111]

We'll, I know Linux does software Raid, and I had read somewhere that some RAID cards mostly use the CPU, whereas others have controllers on the card.

I'm not real knowledgeable on RAID, so does anyone know whats the best way to do it? I have onboard SataRaid but my drives are PATA 133's, so that won't work, and the performace is next to nill when going SATA, so I'm looking for IDE RAID.

Whats the best way???

[murr]

there is a bios on the card so you can either set it up for raid0 or raid1. no software raid is required.

[linuxman111]

Thanks.

[linuxman111]

Forgot to ask, is it a good card for $54?? I saw some for $100 or more, so is this card just a really good deal or what?

Thanks.

[murr]

siig makes good products. if i was looking for one i would purchase it.

[William]

linuxman111 - Youcould probably use your onboard SATA Raid on the A7N8X Deluxe, all you need to do is get a PATA to SATA converter for your drives and plug them into the SATA plugs, would save you some money and make use of that great board. :D

[linuxman111]

Yup, went to the store today and bought two WD or Maxtor (can't remember) 120gig 7800rpm 8meg cache SATA drives and hooked them up RAID 0. Wow, windows XP installed in about 10 minutes. Really nice.

Then, I took my 80gig and 120gig PATA drives (ata133 7800rpm 8meg Cache) and put them in my wife's computer in a RAID 0 setup as well. (I was busy all weekend). Its a 1.4gig tbird on a kt133a-RAID and it runs great.

Never realised how nice RAID is.

[Borbus]

I would be quite cautious about using raid0. i have had a hdd fail in the past (albeit 5 yrs old) but if one fails in a raid0 setup you would lose half the data and the other drive would have useless data on it. Raid1 is a waste of a drive as far as im concerned. People should perform routine backups on to cds not use raid1