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This might be of interest to those that want a fast drive and or a
RAID drive even if your board doesn't support it. I have no
connection with any of these companies and in fact fell into this by
accident and Google.com.
I bought a new Maxtor 120 GB drive. This drive is SATA or serial ATA.
So next I had to buy a PCI card to support the drive. I had used all
my IDE connections up anyway. So I googled around and found some
outfit in Houston called Directron.com. Got a HighPoint Rocket RAID
Serial ATA PCI Host Card SA-PC02 Made in China card from them. So big
deal but when I get it it not only supports drives larger than 137 GB
like all the new SATA's do and Windows doesn't with out some help but
it is SCSI also. It has two port? connectors so you can be RAID with
two drives. Well this isn't my deal but it is a really cheap way to
be able to be RAID able. I think I paid about $25 or $30 delivered for
the card. So I install the new pretty fast drive and card, and with XP
Pro it was so easy, and run a Hard Drive speed test. The drive is much
faster than a 120GB Maxtor I just bought a month ago. Speed depends on
the size files you are testing. on blocks of 30MB total test 300 MB it
was about twice as fast. On a 150MB block size with total file size of
1.46GB it was still %20 faster. All I wanted was a second large drive
that would be faster so TS2ki would be easier to run, but this might
be a bonus that others are interested in more speed and RAID.
Now I have not setup the RAID and probably will not but you could buy
one of these cards and a couple of SATA drives and be running for
about $300 delivered. That isn't bad. Then again it will probably be
cheaper next week. Oh the drive came from Fry's but it may not be
available tomorrow knowing them, but there are tons of SATA drives for
sale.
Please don't email me and tell me I'm way behind the curve and this
stuff is old hat. I do my best to stay up.
Jimmy Snowden
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Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
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