Re: [Sheflug] RAID Cards

[meltie <lists [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:17, Alex Hudson wrote:
> If the £15 or so you save not buying a controller can be put toward a
> faster PATA drive, I would go for that option. Or, get more disk space
> if speed isn't important. SATA is new, the current hardware isn't great,
> the support is rubbish, and having to boot off of secondary IDE systems
> (cards, whatever) is always a pain - I used to do it. If the mainline
> kernel doesn't have support for it, for example, you can always
> recompile one that has, but once you move your main HD onto that
> secondary controller if anything goes wrong you're basically screwed.

And we quickly worked out the the connectors are rubbish and fall out 
really easily when I was working at The Overclocking Store.

alex/melt

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